Black Is My Favorite Color | Essays and Criticism

  • Use of First-Person Narrator

    Poquette has a bachelor's degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses Malamud's use of a first-person narrator to disguise the narrator's flaws in Malamud's story.

  • Black Is My Favorite Color

    Witcover is an editor and writer whose fiction, book reviews, and critical essays appear regularly in print magazines and online media. In the following essay, Witcover discusses fantasy, realism, and race in Bernard Malamud's short story.

  • The Broader Canvas: Malamud, the Blacks, and the Jews

    In the following essay excerpt, Alter explores the racial pessimism present in ''Black Is My Favorite Color,’’ focusing on the story's ‘‘ironic discrepancy between desire and reality.''