Saul Bellow

...(Aleksandar Hemon), this Granta special opens up the city of Barack Obama to the gaze of a newly-curious world. Readers of Saul Bellow will know that the effects of migration and metamorphosis have long blown through the town like the...

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What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolano, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison,...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura, Lolita, Kingsley Amis, Penguin, and Moniza Alvi

...32 Fulbright scholarship winners in 2009, more than any other school in the U.S. Notable alumni include Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow; Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central's Colbert Report; Joe Girardi, manager of the New...

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...130 playwrights who have found a home at HB are Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Donald Margulies, Thornton Wilder, Martin Sherman and Saul Bellow. 2002 "I want to hear a poem," 1999 Fresh Poet of the Year Steve Colman says as Russell...

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In Ada, that bond loosens and frays. There is a weakness in Nabokov for "partricianism", as Saul Bellow called it (Nabokov the classic emigre, Bellow the classic immigrant). In the former's purely "Russian" novels (I mean the novels...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Original of Laura, Pnin, Literature, Transparent Things, and Finnegans Wake

...in his travel-writing. Instead some even of the best among them seem to echo other writers a Graham Greene in The Family Arsenal and Saul Bellow in The Mosquito Coast, for instance. Once an admirer of VS Naipaul, whom he took as his mentor, he...

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...his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded with eulogies from Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. I fell upon it avidly, not primarily because of those...

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...Spooks. Inevitably mistakes have crept in or remained uncorrected. Julian Barnes started work at the OED in 1969 not 1962; Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak is a novel not a short story collection; Karl Miller has not been editor of the...

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...dinner in December. The 62-year-old director follows the likes of presidents Ronald Reagan and John F Kennedy and writer Saul Bellow in receiving the honour. On its website, the League pays tribute to Spielberg's film and television...

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...to the New York Public Library. "What writer would not be honored to be in the company of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Thoreau, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, Paul Auster and W.H. Auden?" Proulx said in a...

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