Author Saul Bellow won every award going, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards and the titles Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Commandeur des ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit. By Rebecca Makkai “It tends to be true ...

In this outtake from “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for Bellow, and how Bellow was a “powerhouse” of an author. “There are very few tools ...

The great age of Jewish-American fiction with its critical successes, best-seller popularity and the cachet of celebrity has passed. Of three major figures – Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) ...

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Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, was born in suburban Montreal and lived in many places across the globe, cities such as New York and Paris, a summer home in Vermont, and in Brookline, ...

Explore the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner’s impact on American literature in the first-ever major documentary on the writer. AMERICAN MASTERS "The Adventures of Saul Bellow" illuminates how Bellow ...

It disturbed me to hear on U.S. public radio and read in The New York Times that Saul Bellow was to be seen as simply an American writer — which, of course, he is — and not significantly a Jewish ...

Saul Bellow, who died yesterday at age 89, was the darkly comic master sociologist whom in a series of biographical novels such as “Herzog” and “The Adventures of Augie March” charted the fate of the ...

“It tends to be true that the best publishers are people who read books,” says literary kingmaker Andrew Wylie. By David Marchese “There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to ...