Saul Bellow

Readers, Meet Writers

Tradition Pays a Visit

"Barney's Version": Mordecai Richler gets a downgrade

Greenberg: Los Angeles plays itself

March Literary Events

What To Do? Tonight's Pick: Jonathan Lethem

​"Jonathan Lethem's last two novels -- 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet -- steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The talking kangaroos, post-apocalyptic telepaths, and alien hermaphrodites were replaced by flying children and mysteriously endowed song ... More >>

Lethem Drops Chronic

​"Jonathan Lethem's last two novels -- 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet -- steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The talking kangaroos, post-apocalyptic telepaths, and alien hermaphrodites were replaced by flying children and mysteriously endowed song ... More >>

Herbert Gold, still alive and still cranky

​"Jonathan Lethem's last two novels -- 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet -- steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The talking kangaroos, post-apocalyptic telepaths, and alien hermaphrodites were replaced by flying children and mysteriously endowed song ... More >>

Pages and Pages

​"Jonathan Lethem's last two novels -- 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet -- steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The talking kangaroos, post-apocalyptic telepaths, and alien hermaphrodites were replaced by flying children and mysteriously endowed song ... More >>

Art of the States

Q: How is indie darling Sufjan Stevens going to write 50 albums about all 50 states? A: One great record at a time.

Curse of the Cultured Class

William Shawn's The Designated Mourner is well-written but less than well-felt

Dead Presidents

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

SFW Stage

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

Stage

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

Stage

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

Tattoos and Taboos

A new quarterly magazine claims to promote a "cultural revolution" among young Jews