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| Saúl Bellow by David Levine |
God, How We Miss Saul Bellow
Nearly 20 years after the great Jewish and American novelist’s death, we have never been more in need of his thirst for life
APRIL 04, 2024
Saul Bellow, who passed away this day in 2005, once the most celebrated of late-20th-century American writers, is now barely taught in universities, disdained as an out-of-date fogey with, we are told, conservative-adjacent hang-ups. But readers will always return to Bellow. Every so often I meet people whose faces light up when they discover I have written about him. Bellow, they tell me, lifted them out of the doldrums and into the clouds. Bellow’s tenacious desire for more life, passed on so readily to readers, never disappoints, and so it will never be lost to a discerning reading public.
