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Essays, Articles, and Other Nonfiction


"Address by Gooley MacDowell at the Hasbeens Club of Chicago." Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters. New York: Geis, 1963. Rpt. in The Writer's Signature: Idea in Story and Essay. Ed. Elaine Gottlief Hemley. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1972.

"Afterword." Saul Bellow: Collected Stories. New York: Viking, 2001. 439–42.

Allan Bloom. Delivered at Bloom's funeral service, 9 Oct. 1992. Rpt. in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 276–79.

"Alone in Mixed Company." Boston Globe 19 May 1996, sec. 5: 96.

"Americans Who Are Also Jews." Jewish Digest Apr. 1977: 8–10.

"Are Many Modern Writers Merely Becoming Actors Who Behave Like Writers?" Chicago Sun-Times Book Week 15 Sept. 1968: 1,10.

"Back to Jerusalem." Jerusalem Report 2 Jan. 1992: 27.

"Beatrice Webb's America." Rev. of Beatrice Webb's American Diary (1898), ed. David A. Shannon. Nation 7 Sept. 1963: 116.

"Bellow on Himself and America."
Jerusalem Post Magazine 3 July 1975: 11–12; 10 July 1975: 12.

"Chicago and American Culture: One Writer's View." Chicago May 1973: 82–89.

"Chicago: The City That Was, the City That Is."
Life Oct. 1986: 21–23, 27. Rpt. in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 240–45.

"The Civilized Barbarian Reader." New York Times Book Review 8 Mar. 1987: 1, 38. Adapted from Foreward to The Closing of the American Mind.

"Cloister Culture." New York Times Book Review 10 July 1966: 1. Rpt. in Page 2: The Best of "Speaking of Books" from The New York Times Book Review. Ed. Francis Brown. New York: Holt, 1969. 3–9.

"Culture Now: Some Animadversions, Some Laughs." Modern Occasions 1.2 (1971): 162–78. Rpt. in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose. 3rd ed. Ed. Arthur M. Eastman. New York: Norton, 1973.

"The Day They Signed the Treaty." Newsday 1 Apr. 1979: 1, 4–5. Rpt. in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 221–30.

"Deep Readers of the World, Beware!" New York Times Book Review 15 Feb. 1959: 1, 34. Rpt. in Opinions and Perspectives from the New York Times Book Review. Ed. Francis Brown. Boston: Houghton, 1964. 24–28.

"Dialogue: As Seen from the Ground." New England Review 22.2 (2001): 6–14. (With Keith Botsford). Rpt. fr. ANON 1970.

The Distracted Public." It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 153–69. (The Romanes Lecture, Oxford University, 10 May 1990.)

"Distractions of a Fiction Writer." The Living Novel: A Symposium. Ed. Granville Hicks. New York: Macmillan, 1957. 1–20. Rpt. in New World Writing. New York: New American Library, 1957; Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. Eds. M. A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh. Delhi: B. R. Publishing, 2000. 545–64.

"Dorothy Canfield Fisher Vermont Tradition 1953." A Vermont 14: Commemorative of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Vermont's Admission to the Union as the Nation's Fourteenth State, 1791–1991. Eds. Edward Connery Lathem and Virginia L. Close. Burlington, VT: U of Vermont Libraries, 1992. [75–80].

"Dreiser and the Triumph of Art." Rev. of Theodore Dreiser, by F. O. Matthiessen. Commentary May 1951: 502–03. Rpt. in The Stature of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Survey of the Man and His Work. Eds. Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1955. 146–48.

"Eternal Life." by Sholom Aleichem. Trans. Saul Bellow. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories. Eds. Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg. New York: Viking, 1954.

"The Evil That Has Many Names." Rev. of The Hive by Camila Jose Cela. New York Times Book Review 27 Sept. 1953: 5.

"Face Truth of Racial Turmoil." Chicago Tribune 14 Aug. 1988, sec. 4: 2.

"Facts that Put Fancy to Flight." New York Times Book Review 11 Feb. 1962: 1, 28. Rpt. in Opinions and Perspectives from the New York Times Book Review. Ed. Francis Brown. Boston: Houghton, 1964. 235–40; It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 64–68.

Foreword. An Age of Enormity. Life and Writing in the Forties and Fifties. Isaac Rosenfeld. Ed. Theodore Solotaroff. Cleveland, OH: World, 1962. 11–14. Rpt. in Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfield Reader. Ed. Mark Shechner. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1988. 13–16.

Foreword. The Boundaries of Natural Science. Rudolf Steiner. Trans. Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber. Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic, 1983.

Foreward. The Closing of the American Mind. By Allen David Bloom. New York: Simnonm, 1987. 11–18

Foreword. Recovery. By John Berryman. New York: Farrar, 1973. Rpt. in as "John Berryman, Friend." New York Times Book Review 27 May 1973: 1–3; Recovery /Delusions, etc. John Berryman. New York: Delta/Dell, 1974. ix–xiv; It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 267–72.

Foreword. The Revolt of the Masses. Jose Ortega y Gasset. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1985. ix–xiii.

"Four Novels." Rev. Selda Popkin, The Journey Home; Victor Wolfson, The Lonely Steeple; Ezio Taddei, The Pine Tree and the Mole; Stephen Lister, By the Waters of Babylon. Commentary Dec.1945/46: 95–96.

"The French as Dostoevsky Saw Them." New Republic 23 May 1955: 17–20. Rpt. in slightly revised version as Foreword. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions. Feodor M. Dostoevsky. New York: Criterion, 1955. 9–27; It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future: A Nonfiction Collection. New York: Viking, 1994. 38–46.

"Gide as Writer and Autobiographer." Rev. of The Counterfeiters with Journal of the Counterfeiters, by Andre Gide. New Leader 4 June 1951: 24.

"Gimpel the Fool." Isaac Bashevis Singer. Trans. Saul Bellow.
Partisan Review 20.3 (1953): 300–13. Rpt. in A Treasury of Yiddish Stories. Eds. Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg. New York: Viking, 1954; Isaac Bashevis Singer. Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, 1957; London: Owen, 1958. Great Jewish Short Stories. Ed. Saul Bellow. New York: Dell, 1963, 1985; London: Valentine, 1971.

"Laughter in the Ghetto." Rev. of
The Adventures of Mottel and the Cantor's Son, by Sholom Aleichem. Saturday Review 30 May 1953: 15.

"Literary Notes on Krushchev." Esquire Mar. 1961: 106–07. Rpt. in Esquire Oct. 1973: 194–95, 412, 414; First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties. Ed. Herbert Gold. New York: Dial, 1963. 46–54.

"Man Underground." Rev. of
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. Commentary June 1952:608–11. Rpt. in Ralph Ellison: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. John R. Hersey. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, N J: Prentice, 1974.

"The Mass-Produced Insight."
Horizon Jan. 1963:111–13.

"Mind over Chatter."
New York Herald Tribune Book Week 4 Apr. 1965: 2.

Revised version of his remarks at
National Book Award ceremonies, Mar. 9, 1985, where he received 1964 award for Herzog.

"Movies: Adrift on a Sea of Gore." Rev. of
Barabbas. Horizon Mar. 1963: 109–11.

"Movies: Bunuel's Unsparing Vision."
Horizon Nov. 1962: 110–12.

"Movies: The Art of Going It Alone."
Horizon Sept. 1962: 108–10.

"My Man Bummidge." New York Times 27 Sept. 1964: sec. 2: i, 5.

"My Paris." New York Times Magazine Part 2, The Sophisticated Traveler 13 Mar. 1983: 36–37, 130–35.

Rev. of
Barefoot Boy: A Precocious Autobiography, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew. New York Review of Books 26 Sept. 1963: 8–9.

"New York—at a Comfortable Distance: 'World-Famous Impossibility.'''
New York Times 6 Dec. 1970: IA, 12A.

"On Jewish Storytelling."
Jewish Heritage 7.3 (1964–65): 5–9.

"On John Cheever."
New York Review of Books 17 Feb. 1983: 38. Speech to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

"An Open Letter to General Jaruzelski."
New York Review of Books 27 June 1985: 8.
Nobel Laureates sign letter protesting imprisonment of Polish dissident leaders.

"Paris Falling."
New Republic 13 Sept. 1943: 367.

"A Personal Record." Rev. of
Except the Lord, by Joyce Cary. New Republic 22 Feb. 1954: 20–21.

"Rabbi's Boy in Edinburgh." Rev. of
Two Worlds, by David Daiches. Saturday Review 24 Mar. 1956: 19.

"Ralph Ellison in Tivoli."
Partisan Review 65.4 (1998): 524–28.

100. "A Revolutionist's Testament." New York Times Book Review 21 Nov. 1943: 1, 53. Rpt. in Arthur Koestler: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Ed. Murray A. Sperber. Englewood Cliffs, N J: Prentice, 1977. 30–33.

"Saul Bellow on America and American Jewish Writers."
Congress Bi-Weekly Part I, 23 Oct. 1970: 8–11; Part II, 4 Dec. 1970: 13–16.

Saul Bellow on Art, Literature, and American Life. Audio cassette. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1982. Vital History Cassettes 3.

"Saul Bellow on Mozart." Guardian 2 Apr. 1992: 23.

"Something to Remember Me By." Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers. Ed. Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport. New York: Schocken, 1992. 14–45.

Something to Remember Me By. London: Secker and Warburg, 1992.

"Something to Remember Me By." The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.

"Spanish Letter." Partisan Review 15.2 (1948): 217–30.

"Summations." Saul Bellow: A Mosaic. Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers 3. New York: Lang, 1992. 186–99.

"The Swamp of Prosperity." Rev. of
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Commentary July 1959: 77–79.

"A Talk with the Yellow Kid."
Reporter 6 Sept. 1956: 41–44.

"The Thinking Man's Wasteland." Saturday Review 3 Apr. 1965: 20. Adapted from a speech accepting the National Book Award for Herzog.

"There Is Simply Too Much to Think About." Forbes 14 Sept. 1992: 98–101,104, 106.

"A Time for Rethinking." Newsweek 27 Dec. 1976: 62.

"Two Faces for a Hostile World." Rev. of
Five A.M., by Jean Dutourd, trans. Robin Chancellor. New York Times Book Review 26 Aug. 1956: 4–5.

"What's Wrong with Modern Fiction."
Sunday Times 12 Jan. 1975: 31A.

"The Writers and the Audience."
Perspectives USA 9 (1954): 99102.

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