Corvallis Gazette Times
"Trouble in the West: Malamud's New Book"
James W. Groshong
October 2, 1961
"In Bernard Malamud's latest novel, 'A New Life' (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, $4.95), the seeker of the new life, Seymour Levin, a thirty-year-old bachelor New Yorker. Trying to escape the failures and degradations of his past, he takes a job in the English department of a college in the Pacific northwest."
