The Unstoppable Upward
James Wolcott: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’, 24 January 2019
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 864 pp., £35, November 2018,978 0 224 10188 2 Show More
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 864 pp., £35, November 2018,
“... for the bungling of what could have been a beautiful Johnson-Boswell partnership. The book is a goody bag of quotable incidents and a useful guide to the biographer’s tradecraft, but pertinent to our immediate interest is the section where Atlas gives a draft of the work in progress to the social scientist Edward Shils – a long-time colleague and ... ”