“My fictional life in a Bellow novel put me in the public domain,” wrote Saul Bellow’s ex-wife Susan in “Mugging and the Muse,” an unpublished work quoted in Zachary Leader’s biography of the novelist ...

Philip Roth describes his admiration for Saul Bellow in Roth's final interview. In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1958, the novelist Saul Bellow and his second wife, Sondra, were living in a crumbling mansion in Tivoli, New ...

A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place. By Aatish Taseer and Andrew Moore Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Among his contemporaries, Saul Bellow is distinguished because he joins intellectual interest to imagination. Unfortunately, the two don’t perfectly mesh, so that although Bellow is beyond question ...

“I’m not a social-service agency,” a smiling Bellow is heard to say during one of several TV interviews excerpted in Asaf Galay’s documentary, whose title echoes Bellow’s breakthrough, “The Adventures ...

ONE day in 1942 I was walking near the Brooklyn Borough Hall with a young writer just in from Chicago who was looking New York over with great detachment. In the course of some startlingly apt ...

In the new documentary The Adventures of Saul Bellow, the black novelist and literature professor Charles R. Johnson reads a passage aloud from Bellow’s 1971 novel Mr. Sammler’s Planet. In the excerpt ...