American Jewish literature
The novelist’s sole work of nonfiction.
Cora Wilburn’s Cosella Wayne.
Longfellow vs. Lazarus.
His reputation will fall and rise with his people’s.
The great theme of his work is resistance to spiritual constraint, the soul’s freedom as the highest value.
Bellow’s whole career as a writer was devoted to this dichotomy, sometimes veering toward one pole, sometimes toward the other, but never losing sight of both.
The Jewish writer who became America’s most decorated novelist spent his early years prodding the nation’s soul. Then, sensing danger to it, he took up the role of guardian.
Samuel Greenberg.
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”
He wrote about the greatest story of all.
City Boy: an urban Jewish Tom Sawyer.
A great Jewish writer, and the underappreciated depth of one of his most popular novels.
A new volume highlights the work of Saul Bellow’s friend and lover.
Peter S. Beagle at eighty.