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Saul Bellow
March 22, 2021
Laura Marsh
Philip Roth’s Revenge Fantasy
The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.
March 16, 2018
Calum Marsh
Martin Amis Makes the Case for Snobbery
The essays in “The Rub of Time” defend careful thought and use of language.
October 19, 2017
Robert Minto
A Revered Biographer Looks at His Own Life
James Atlas wrote two influential literary biographies. Now, he turns to memoir.
September 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Professor Bellow
The influence of the academy made Saul Bellow’s fiction insufferable.
December 7, 2012
Paul Berman
The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism
October 26, 2011
Adam Kirsch
The Inner Clamor
March 3, 2011
Adam Kirsch
Beyond Idolatry
February 10, 2011
Cynthia Ozick
Lasting Man
March 11, 2010
Leon Wieseltier
Into Reverse
October 8, 2009
Adam Kirsch
Seize the Pen
March 26, 2008
Jed Perl
The Troubadour Intellectual
February 27, 2008
Christopher Benfey
A Close Shave
October 30, 2006
Jed Perl
The Varieties of Artistic Experience
May 20, 2002
Franklin Foer
Flacks Americana
July 9, 1977
Stephen Hess
Full Disclosure
September 19, 1964
Irving Howe
Odysseus, Flat on His Back
On Saul Bellow's sixth—and most remarkable—novel, 'Herzog'
November 2, 1953
Robert Penn Warren
The Man With No Commitments
The comic and heroic philosophy of 'The Adventures of Augie March'

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