Tag Archives: Saul Bellow

Bellow, Bellow, Bellow

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Ellen Akins

Zachary Leader‘s The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune has just been published (by Cape in England, Knopf in the U.S.), giving a bevy of wonderful writers, critics, and pundits a chance to reflect on the colorful old … Continue reading →

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Some (Old) Guys: J. M. Coetzee, David Grene

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Ellen Akins

 Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? When David Grene died, at 89, in 2002, Douglas Martin said of him, in the New York Times, that his “translations of ancient Greek spoke with such clarity that the writer … Continue reading →

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