In this outtake from “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for Bellow, and how Bellow was a “powerhouse” of an author. “There are very few tools ...

Saul Bellow, one of the 20th century's great writers, was born 100 years ago next month. The publishing world is marking the anniversary with a flurry of books — a Library of America edition of Bellow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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“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 ...

On his deathbed, Saul Bellow asked a question his admirers and detractors have long been agonizing over: “Was I a man, or was I a jerk?” Of course this is a false binary. But when Bellow said “man,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...