“This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death,” by Harold Brodkey. Henry Holt 192 pages. $22.50. It has the makings of a minor but affecting Woody Allen movie: A New York literary lion, famously ...

Harold Brodkey is the biggest question mark in American literature today. He is a full-fledged legend in the upper reaches of American print society. But you may never have heard of Brodkey, and more ...

“One doesn’t think about Harold Brodkey anymore,” says Richard Ford, who reads Harold Brodkey’s 1954 story “The State of Grace” on this month’s Fiction Podcast, but “there was a time when the words ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For three decades, Harold Brodkey was the hesitant Hamlet of American ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Harold Brodkey, 65; OF AIDS, in New York City, Jan. 26. Probably no ...

Harold Brodkey’s final collection of stories, published after his death in 1996, presents an intelligence extraordinarily tuned to reflection and memory. The result is a strange, difficult and ...

This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we will turn a spotlight on a notable article, story, or poem from the magazine’s history. The issue ...

MEMOIR THIS WILD DARKNESS. Harold Brodkey. Metropolitan. $20. 177 pp.“I felt human love, always, as danger and oppression, as invasion.”These lines from Harold Brodkey’s 1992 novel Profane Friendship ...

An ambitious book is a presumptuous book; it aims at a certain bull’s-eye. Then there’s another sort of great book–the kind that grows to such proportions out of the nature of the material or the ...