Essays, Articles, and Other Nonfiction

• "Alone in Mixed Company." Boston Globe 19 May 1996, sec. 5: 96.
  
  
• "A Personal Record." Rev. of Except the Lord, by Joyce Cary. New Republic 22 Feb. 1954: 20–21.
  
  
• "A Talk with the Yellow Kid." Reporter6 Sept. 1956: 41–44.
  
  
• "A Time for Rethinking." Newsweek27 Dec. 1976: 62.
  
  
• "An Open Letter to General Jaruzelski." New York Review of Books27 June 1985: 8. Nobel Laureates sign letter protesting imprisonment of Polish dissident leaders.
  
  
• "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: 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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Literary Notes on Krushchev." EsquireMar. 1961: 106–07. Rpt. in EsquireOct. 1973: 194–95, 412, 414; First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties. Ed. Herbert Gold. New York: Dial, 1963. 46–54.
  
  
• "Mind over Chatter." New York Herald Tribune Book Week 4 Apr. 1965: 2.
  
  
• "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 Times27 Sept. 1964: sec. 2: i, 5.
  
  
• "New York—at a Comfortable Distance: 'World-Famous Impossibility.''' New York Times6 Dec. 1970: IA, 12A.
  
  
• "On Jewish Storytelling." Jewish Heritage 7.3 (1964–65): 5–9.
  
  
• "On John Cheever." New York Review of Books17 Feb. 1983: 38. Speech to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  
  
• "Paris Falling." New Republic 13 Sept. 1943: 367.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Saul Bellow on Mozart." Guardian 2 Apr. 1992: 23.
  
  
• "Something to Remember Me By." The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Spanish Letter." Partisan Review15.2 (1948): 217–30.
  
  
• "Summations." Saul Bellow: A Mosaic. Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers3. New York: Lang, 1992. 186–99.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "The Mass-Produced Insight." Horizon Jan. 1963:111–13.
  
  
• "The Thinking Man's Wasteland." Saturday Review3 Apr. 1965: 20.Adapted from a speech accepting the National Book Awardfor Herzog.
  
  
• "The Writers and the Audience." PerspectivesUSA 9 (1954): 99–102.
  
  
• "There Is Simply Too Much to Think About." Forbes14 Sept. 1992: 98–101,104, 106.
  
  
• "Two Faces for a Hostile World." Rev. of Five A.M., by Jean Dutourd, trans. Robin Chancellor. New York Times Book Review26 Aug. 1956: 4–5.
  
  
• "What's Wrong with Modern Fiction." Sunday Times12 Jan. 1975: 31A.
  
  
• 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 Art, Literature, and American Life. Audio cassette. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1982. Vital History Cassettes 3.
  
  
• Foreword. The Revolt of the Masses. Jose Ortega y Gasset. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1985. ix–xiii.
  
  
• Revised version of his remarks at National Book Award ceremonies, Mar. 9, 1985, where he received 1964 award for Herzog.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Chicago and American Culture: One Writer's View." Chicago May 1973: 82–89.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Gide as Writer and Autobiographer." Rev. of The Counterfeiters with Journal of the Counterfeiters, by Andre Gide. New Leader 4 June 1951: 24.
  
  
• "Laughter in the Ghetto." Rev. of The Adventures of Mottel and the Cantor's Son, by Sholom Aleichem. Saturday Review30 May 1953: 15.
  
  
• "Man Underground." Rev. of Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. CommentaryJune 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.
  
  
• "My Paris." New York Times MagazinePart 2, The Sophisticated Traveler13 Mar. 1983: 36–37, 130–35.
  
  
• "Saul Bellow on America and American Jewish Writers." Congress Bi-WeeklyPart I, 23 Oct. 1970: 8–11; Part II, 4 Dec. 1970: 13–16.
  
  
• "The Civilized Barbarian Reader." New York Times Book Review 8 Mar. 1987: 1, 38. Adapted from Foreward to The Closing of the American Mind.
  
  
• "The Evil That Has Many Names." Rev. of The Hive by Camila Jose Cela. New York Times Book Review 27 Sept. 1953: 5.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "The Swamp of Prosperity." Rev. of Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. CommentaryJuly 1959: 77–79.
  
  
• Something to Remember Me By. London: Secker and Warburg, 1992.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Foreward. The Closing of the American Mind. By Allen David Bloom. New York: Simnonm, 1987. 11–18
  
  
• 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. 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 Boundaries of Natural Science. Rudolf Steiner. Trans. Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber. Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic, 1983.
  
  
• Rev. of Barefoot Boy: A Precocious Autobiography, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew. New York Review of Books26 Sept. 1963: 8–9.
  
  
• 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.)