To the Israeli Press, Pronouncements by Generals Are Non-Political So Long as They’re Politically Correct
Any other positions are “political.”
February 25, 2019
Was Saul Bellow a Novelist of Ideas?
The second volume of a new biography sheds some light on the question.
Reviewing the second volume of Zachary Leader’s biography of Saul Bellow, which covers the Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s life from 1965 (the year after the publication of Herzog) to his death in 2005, Abe Greenwald explores Bellow’s philosophical and ideological commitments. Greenwald praises Leader for producing a “sprawling anthology of Bellow’s ideas—politics, metaphysics, love, and more—and a treasure map to these ideas in Bellow’s life and fiction.” This is particularly important since
February 25, 2019
A New Political Alliance Mounts a Credible Threat to Benjamin Netanyahu
But the election remains his to lose.
Qatar’s Increasingly Tenuous Alliance with Iran
Will it stand up to mounting pressure from the U.S. and the Saudis?
Was Saul Bellow a Novelist of Ideas?
The second volume of a new biography sheds some light on the question.
The Newest Trend in Religious Intolerance Seeks to Drive Traditional Christians Out of Hollywood
Don’t go to a church that doesn’t “affirm” gay marriage.
