NEW YORK – Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in “Herzog,” “Humboldt’s Gift” and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, died Tuesday.

I’ll confess: I savored “The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,” the first of the two volumes of Zachary Leader’s new biography of Bellow, as if it were cake. Its text is six hundred ...

“My fictional life in a Bellow novel put me in the public domain,” wrote Saul Bellow’s ex-wife Susan in “Mugging and the Muse,” an unpublished work quoted in Zachary Leader’s biography of the novelist ...

Salman Rushdie talks about some of his favorite Saul Bellow books in this outtake from “The Adventures of Saul Bellow.” Rushdie says, “These are some of the great masterpieces of American literature.” ...

"The truth, whatever it is, is strange." I can still hear Saul's voice, for a few moments absent its gaiety and its wickedness, gently pronouncing those emancipating words. It was a summer afternoon ...

A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place. By Aatish Taseer and Andrew Moore Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past ...

Writing a biography of Saul Bellow must be like taking a test you’re doomed to flunk: Describe the life of a great self-describer. Bellow didn’t write autobiography, but he pulled the best details in ...

This sometimes emotionally distant, often clinically written, and unabashedly straightforward memoir from the eldest son of Saul Bellow reveals the "inner life" of a storming personality as Bellow ...

Of late I find myself seeking out volumes of literary letters as solace for the demise of the epistolary arts. Word processing -- which elevates redacted over impressionistic observations -- signaled ...

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Soon after Saul Bellow returned to his hometown in 1962 and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, he started donating his papers to the school library. One of the most celebrated novelists ...