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When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: No Nobels For New Bellow Paperback Novella | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...THEFT by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate offers an original novella in paperback, a vivid new fiction in which the familiar Bellow hero has become a heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 13, 1989 | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Old Master in Soft-Covers | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...Saul Bellow offers a literary bargain: A Theft, his vivid novella, costs $6.95. -- Umberto Eco's latest tome incites Ecomania in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 10 MARCH 6, 1989 | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

From the time Professor of Law Gary R. Bellow started the Harvard Clinical Studies program in the 1970s, legal scholars have recognized it as at the vanguard of the development of practical legal education. The Harvard AIDS Law Clinic is a clear example of the Law School's adaptability to the community's changing legal needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giving Legal Help To AIDS Patients | 3/1/1989 | See Source »

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