Saul Bellow
To the frustration of German test-takers.
On the novelist’s letters and a “repulsive category.”
An newly-unearthed 1988 recording of the famous novelist.
Proof how much Bellow matters to our democratic society.
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
Laura Z. Hobson’s The Gentleman’s Agreement, a best-selling 1947 novel, brought American “genteel” anti-Semitism into the limelight, especially after it was turned into a movie.. . .
Saul Bellow’s semi-autobiographical novel Herzog, published 50 years ago, is an unforgettable account of the moral and intellectual ambiguities of modern and modern Jewish life.
More than Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, James Salter (né Horowitz) captures the situation of assimilated American Jews—by never writing from a Jewish perspective.
“If you want to learn about life in 20th-century urban America, and the Jewish experience in particular, . . . Bellow’s work should be the first port of call.”