Bellow's

Bellow's letters take the reader through a long and replete – "capacious" is his wife's word for it – life.

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010

In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," the narrator describes himself as an "idiotic old lecher" who is "leaving two children to follow an obvious gold digger to corrupt Europe."

Bringing Up Baby? Definitely Jonathan Rosen 2011

It is cosy, not grand, and that goes for Bellow's writing room, too (there is another home, for the summers, in Vermont).

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010

On the way to meet Saul Bellow's fifth wife here at the house she shared with him in a coppery suburb of Boston, I looked again at an old newspaper photograph of the couple.

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010

As a newcomer and an outsider, when she entered Bellow's class – the Nobel laureate!

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010

Saul Bellow's letters are to be published later this month, five years after his death.

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010

Conservative voters, as witnessed by the success of authors like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin, have proved an enthusiastic book-buying audience, but Mr. Bellow's expectations are measured.

Digital Technology Helps Create Platform for Political 'Pamphlets' Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2011

Mr. Bellow's next target audience is conservatives in the film community, long considered a bastion of liberal thinking.

Digital Technology Helps Create Platform for Political 'Pamphlets' Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2011

As it happens, Vilakazi's poetry has been translated into English from the Zulu by Es'kia Mphahlele 1919-2008, another notable African writer whose literary achievement serves as a kind of answer to Bellow's question.

Chronicling a World Apart Martin Rubin 2011

In the winter of 1985, Bellow's fourth wife, Alexandra, a celebrated mathematician, asked him for a divorce, and the couple separated.

Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010