How Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.

Zachary Leader’s superb biography convinces readers that Saul Bellow never really knew Saul Bellow. As The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 details, the Nobel Prize-winning ...

As signs to St. Louis channeled me down a six-lane highway (Interstate 55 South), and Saul Bellow’s city reappeared ... These mental pictures settled my idea of America, my adoptive country ...

His paintings are not “images” in the sense to which we have ... our minds — or at least the model of mind proposed by Saul Bellow in “The Adventures of Augie March”: “All the while ...

Getty Images This article is a selection from the ... a classic Chicago striver who could have stepped out of the pages of Saul Bellow or James T. Farrell. “He is a man who has made himself ...

In literature, there’s Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud ... according to the author. Getty Images While much of his fiction now feels dated, there are few greater pleasures than ...

(Ted West/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS) CHICAGO — The March ... Margaret Atwood and Saul Bellow. It was a gallery for such artists as Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, LeRoy Neiman ...

“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression,” the poet of another city, Saul Bellow, once wrote ... Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Will Los Angeles recover?

Emil Cioran in Paris.Sophie Bassouls (Sygma / Getty Images) From 1945 onward both reinvented their ... was forced to cancel a trip to Jerusalem in 1973 because of his antisemitic past; Saul Bellow was ...

A trio of new triplets -- and their two year-old bro -- will help Kevin Williamson celebrate Father's Day this weekend. Courtesy of Kevin Williamson On Father’s Day of 2022, I didn’t have any ...

In Saul Bellow’s Chicago of the 1930s and ‘40s ... that still capture the city’s distinctive sense of place. Photos of many locations on the tour along with Lesniewicz’s explanations ...