The Irish Times
"Malamud Reruns"
by Lucille Redmond, Dublin, Ireland
June 24, 1980
"'A New Life' is the story of Seymour Levin, who tries to start the eponymous life in the moronic local university of a western American town. The university is set in an agricultural state, fights desperately for funds with its competing college in the north of the state, and backs down every time a parent or voter objects to any of its policies."
