American Dreams: Saul Bellow’s Masterpiece of Lamentation

When Herzog appeared in 1964, it upended our ideas about what novels could accomplish. But for all its revolutionary scope, it was a profoundly conservative book.

Nathaniel Rich

Published Jul. 27 2014 5:45AM EDT 

Nathaniel Rich

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