The Red and the Black is both a perfect romance and the finest satire.

There is a great mistake about Saul Bellow. The mistake is to read his books as if he is inscribed, uninflected, in his main characters.

Saul Bellow's Henderson on the "spotty damn mangoes" that make us feel the sorrow of living.

A moral realism most of us today lack subtly girds Camus’s art.

Ludwig Lewisohn on the moral illusionism that bedevils British and American thinkers.

Milner’s book is a warning to Jews that Europe isn’t done trying to solve the problem they pose.