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Another reason for Bellow to celebrate is the appearance next week of his 13th novel, Ravelstein (Viking; 233 pages; $24.95). His pleasure in this new arrival, though, has been tinged with an annoyance. Most of the prepublication chatter about Ravelstein has pegged the book as a barely fictionalized account of Bellow's close friendship with Allan Bloom, his colleague at the University of Chicago and the author of the phenomenally best-selling The Closing of the American Mind (1987). When Bloom, whose writings made him a hero among conservatives, died in 1992, the cause was officially announced as liver failure...