Saul bellow

Listen to Saul Bellow's talk from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in 1994, hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.

Boris Pasternak Gabriel García Márquez Milan Kundera Arthur Miller Susan Sontag Ursula K. Le Guin Boris Vian Sergei Dovlatov John Updike Simone de Beauvoir Eugen Ionescu Thornton Wilder Vladimir Nabokov William Saroyan Paul Auster Sylvia Plath Jacques Prévert Paul and Nusch Eluard Jorge Luis Borges…

Saul BELLOW

Louis Menand on Zachary Leader’s “The Life of Saul Bellow,” and the story of “Herzog,” Bellow’s fame-making—and vengeful—roman à clef.

Saul Bellow

The answer is ‘yes’ on both counts … A terrific biography of the great Jewish-American writer is also a first-rate piece of literary criticism

Saul Bellow’s three sons gathered at their first public joint discussion of their father to promote “Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir,” by Gregory Bellow.

Richard Brody on Saul Bellow's brief career as a film critic in the sixties.

"Death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind," Cynthia Ozick wrote in a recent issue of The New Republic. "The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other. "Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed…

Saul Bellow, Herzog