British Novelist and Literary Critic

Malcolm Bradbury

6 articles 1997–2002

Malcolm Bradbury was a celebrated British novelist, critic, and academic best known for works such as *The History Man* and for founding the creative writing program at the University of East Anglia. He contributed literary and cultural criticism to The Weekly Standard, writing about figures like Muriel Spark and exploring broader themes in fiction and international affairs. He passed away in 2000.

Coming to America

December 27, 2002 · Blog, Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury--novelist, teacher, critic, and scriptwriter--died in England on November 27, 2000 at the age of sixty-eight. He was best known for "The History Man," one of the great academic comedies ever written, and "Rates of Exchange," a comic attack on communism set in a fictitious country…

Coming to America

December 18, 2000 · Magazine, Malcolm Bradbury, Books and Arts

Malcolm Bradbury -- novelist, teacher, critic, and scriptwriter -- died in England on November 27, at the age of sixty-eight. He was best known for The History Man, one of the great academic comedies ever written, and Rates of Exchange, a comic attack on communism set in a fictitious country in…

A GENRE REBORN

April 27, 1998 · Magazine, Malcolm Bradbury, Books and Arts

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HONG KONG AND BRITAIN, TWO ISLANDS AT SEA

July 7, 1997 · Blog, Malcolm Bradbury

Hong Kong and its Fragrant Harbor are, everyone agrees, among the loveliest sights on earth. The British Royal Navy undoubtedly thought so when it seized the 35 miles of rock from China in 1841 and, almost secretly, added it to the great pink map of Empire. Early governors developed the territory…