The first volume of Zachary Leader’s new biography of Saul Bellow (a second volume is projected) begins at the end, with a scene from the author’s deathbed.⁠[1] Leader reports that in the midst of one his periodic spells of unconsciousness, Bellow awoke, “looked intently” at a visiting friend, and asked, “Was I a man or […]

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