Miscellaneous Writings

• "Americans Who Are Also Jews." Jewish Digest Apr. 1977: 8–10. Cited in Index to Jewish Periodicals, Jan.–June 1977.
  
  
• "Dreiser and the Triumph of Art." Rev. of Theodore Dreiser, by F. O. Matthiessen. CommentaryMay 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. Rpt. as Forward. Isaac Rosenfeld. An Age of Enormity: Life and writing in the Forties and Fifties. By Isaac Rosenfeld. Ed. Theodore Solotaroff. Cleveland: World, 1962. 11–14; Rpt. in Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader. Ed. Mark Shechner. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1988. 13–16.
  
  
• "Isaac Rosenfeld." Partisan Review23.4 (1956): 565–67.
  
  
• "Jewish Writers are Somehow Different." National Jewish Monthly Mar. 1971: 50–51.
  
  
• "Movies: Adrift on a Sea of Gore." Rev. of Barabbas. HorizonMar. 1963: 109–11.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "A Revolutionist's Testament." New York Times Book Review21 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.
  
  
• "A Talk with the Yellow Kid." Reporter6 Sept. 1956: 41–44.
  
  
• "A Time for Rethinking." Newsweek 27 Dec. 1976: 62.
  
  
• "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.

• "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.
  
  
• "Gide as Writer and Autobiographer." Rev. of The Counterfeiters with Journal of the Counterfeiters, by Andre Gide. New Leader4 June 1951: 24.
  
  
• "Gimpel the Fool." Isaac Bashevis Singer. Trans. Saul Bellow. Partisan Review20.3 (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.
  
  
• "Hemingway and the Image of Man." Rev. of Ernest Hemingway, by Philip Young. Partisan Review20.3 (1953): 338–42.
  
  
• "Illinois Journey." HolidaySept. 1957: 62–63, 102–07.
  
  
• "In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt." EsquireDec. 1983: 530–32, 35–36, 39–40. Introduction. Great Jewish Short Stories. Ed. Saul Bellow. New York: Dell, 1963.
  

  Includes his translation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpel the Fool."

• "Italian Fiction: Without Hope." Rev. of The New Italian Writers.: An Anthology from Botleghe Obscure, ed. Marguerite Caetani. New Leader11 Dec. 1950: 21–22.
  
  
• "Land of Plenty." Travel-HolidayJuly 1990: 102.
  
  
• "Laughter in the Ghetto." Rev. of The Adventures of Mottel and the Cantor's Son, by Sholom Aleichem. Saturday Review30 May 1953: 15.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• "Mind over Chatter." New York Herald Tribune BookWeek 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: Bunuel's Unsparing Vision." Horizon Nov. 1962: 110–12.
  
  
• "Movies: The Art of Going It Alone." HorizonSept. 1962: 108–10.
  
  
• "My Man Bummidge." New York Times27 Sept. 1964: sec. 2: i, 5.
  
  
• "My Paris." New York Times MagazinePart 2, The Sophisticated Traveler13 Mar. 1983: 36–37, 130–35.
  
  
• "New York—at a Comfortable Distance: 'World-Famous Impossibility.''' New York Times 6 Dec. 1970: IA, 12A.
  
  
• "On Jewish Storytelling." Jewish Heritage7.3 (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.
  
  
• "Rabbi's Boy in Edinburgh." Rev. of Two Worlds, by David Daiches. Saturday Review 24 Mar. 1956: 19.
  
  
• "Saul Bellow on America and American Jewish Writers." Congress Bi-WeeklyPart I, 23 Oct. 1970: 8–11; Part II, 4 Dec. 1970: 13–16.
  
  
• "Something to Remember Me By." Esquire July 1990: 64–75, 78–79.
  
  
• "Spanish Letter." Partisan Review15.2 (1948): 217–30.
  
  
• "The Evil That Has Many Names." Rev. of The Hiveby Camila Jose Cela. New York Times Book Review27 Sept. 1953: 5. Foreword. The Boundaries of Natural Science. Rudolf Steiner. Trans. Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber. Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic, 1983.
  
  
• "The French as Dostocvsky Saw Them." New Republic23 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.
  
  
• "The Good Place." Travel-Holiday July 1990: 38–47.
  
  
• "The Jewish Writer and the English Literary Tradition: A Symposium, Part II." CommentaryOct. 1949: 336–67.
  

  Bellow's contribution to a symposium by Jewish writers on the question "What can we do about Fagin?"

• "The Mass-Produced Insight." HorizonJan. 1963: 111–13.
  
  
• "The Swamp of Prosperity." Rev. of Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. CommentaryJuly 1959: 77–79.
  
  
• "The Thinking Man's Wasteland." Saturday Review3 Apr. 1965: 20. Adapted from a speech accepting the National Book Award for Herzog.
  
  
• "The Writers and the Audience." Perspectives USA 9 (1954): 99–102.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• 70. Foreword. 'An Age of Enormity.' Life and Writing in the Forties and Fifties. Isaac Rosenfeld. Ed. Theodore Solotaroff. Cleveland, OH: World, 1962. 11–14.
  
  
• Rev. of Barefoot Boy: A Precocious Autobiography, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew. New York Review of Books26 Sept. 1963: 8–9.
  
  
• Saul Bellow on Art, Literature, and American Life. Audio cassette. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 1982. Vital History Cassettes 3.
  
  
• Bellow, Saul. "Face Truth of Racial Turmoil." Chicago Tribune 14 Aug. 1988, sec 4: 2.
  

  A letter to the editor accusing the Tribune editorial writer of minimizing extent of the city's anti-Semitism.

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