The cooling systems on high-performance PCs are often a large part of their visual appeal, but we’ve never seen anything like [DIY Perks]’ latest build: A massive bellow-cooled PC. The system is ...

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 ...

But prior to Bellow and the novelists who emerged alongside him—Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth—there was a profound hesitance at the idea of letting anything as precious as American ...

For Saul Bellow, 1964 was a breakthrough year. With the publication of his sixth book, Herzog, Bellow went from being a favorite of the critics and a select circle of readers to the ranks of novelists ...

“We often stopped before a display of children’s shoes. My mother coveted for me a pair of patent-leather sandals with an elegantissimo strap. I finally got them — I rubbed them with butter to ...

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 ...

One of the delightful surprises arising from the spate of books celebrating Saul Bellow’s centenary is the discovery that, for a brief while, Bellow was a film critic. He wrote four essays about ...

The novelist 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, has died at 89. The novelist ...

Saul Bellow's Ravelstein has been treated less as a novel than a minor miracle: a cause more for celebration than criticism. That an 85-year-old should produce a novel at all was regarded as ...

Saul Bellow was the finest novelist of his generation in an age when novels mattered. Herzog, Bellow's most famous book, was number one on the New York Times best-seller list for almost a year; it is ...