Saul Bellow

“They cannot be a light unto other nations who denigrate their own.”

Howard Jacobson
Feb. 9 2023 12:01AM

“Something to Remember Me By.”

Aug. 18 2022 12:01AM

Great Jewish writers in three languages visit the Yiddishists.

Cecile Kuznitz and Ezekiel Lifschitz
March 14 2022 12:01AM

It’s a cop-out to explain away a novel’s improprieties on the grounds that they are of another age.

Howard Jacobson
July 23 2021 12:01AM

The blessing and the curse.

Julian Levinson
March 31 2021 12:01AM

Finding the thread that connects Franz Kafka, Amos Oz, Saul Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick.

Feb. 4 2021 12:01AM

The novelist in search of a literary father.

David Herman
Oct. 5 2020 12:01AM

Remembrance of riots past.

David Herman
June 24 2020 12:01AM

Our resident scholar joins us to talk about her recent essay on the novelist Saul Bellow and to expand on her sense of him as a full-fledged Jewish intellectual.

Feb. 6 2020 12:01AM

The novelist’s sole work of nonfiction.

Paul Berman
Jan. 22 2020 12:01AM

His reputation will fall and rise with his people’s.

Oct. 28 2019 12:01AM

The great theme of his work is resistance to spiritual constraint, the soul’s freedom as the highest value.

Oct. 23 2019 12:01AM

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.

Oct. 16 2019 12:01AM

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.

Oct. 7 2019 12:01AM