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12 hours ago · Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day, first published in 1956, centres on a failed actor turned stock market pundit trapped by his life choices but unwilling to take the necessary action to get himself out of a hole. It’s the story of a mediocre man who blames everyone but himself for his failings. Wilhelm Adler, whose stage name is “Tommy”, is ...
1 day ago · Philip Roth and Saul Bellow famously wrote novels with protagonists very close to their true selves, but there is no warrant that the novels are renderings of actual events.
2 days ago · With its overall air of imposing dignity, and with Brody performing Toth’s internalized distrust with the winding grace of an orchestra conductor, Corbet’s film doesn’t move to the rhythms of authentic Jewish-American neuroticism—like, say, Saul Bellow’s Herzog or Phillip Roth’s The Counterlife, or Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, genuine diasporic works.
12 hours ago · Kingsley Amis thought MacDonald was a better writer than Saul Bellow. All of the McGee books have colors in their titles. MacDonald was among the first to use this sort of mnemonic device, as Sue ...
2 days ago · We follow Philip Roth to Eastern Europe and Cynthia Ozick’s and Saul Bellow’s characters into diaspora. Minimalism, rock and roll, New Hollywood, Rushdie’s fatwa, the American West—an astounding account of Larry McMurtry’s career—the memoir boom. Brier touches it all.
2 days ago · Podcast: Gary Saul Morson on “Leninthink“ Podcast: David Wolpe on The Pandemic and the Future of Liberal Judaism; Podcast: Chaim Saiman on the “Zoom Seder“ and Its Discontents; Podcast: Leon Kass on Reading Exodus and the Formation of the People of Israel; Podcast: Einat Wilf on the West‘s Indulgence of Palestinian Delusions
2 days ago · Saul Bellow (1915–2005) United States (born in Canada) English "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" [77] novel, short story 1977: Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) Spain: Spanish
