Volume 44, Number 11 · June 26, 1997
Struggles of a Prophet
By Alfred Kazin
The Actual
by Saul Bellow
Viking, 104 pp., $17.95
Saul Bellow will be eighty-two this summer. Not long ago, he told Playboy, he had been near death after partaking in the Caribbean of a fish that turned out to be toxic. But here he is, sharp as ever when he writes about low doings in Chicago and then adds his now customary outrage at the piggishness and mediocrity of American democracy.
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