Jane Barnes Casey

Humboldt's Gift. By Saul Bellow. Viking $10.00. SAUL BELLOW published his first novel in 1944. Humboldt's Gift, his eighth, shows how well his mastery over long fiction has progressed in the three decades since. In addition Bellow has written a b [...]

A an author, Peter Taylor is more often praised than understood. The respect his work inspires frequently seems taken in by appearances, by the fact that in a formal sense, his material seems fixed. His stories usually take place in Tennessee—in [...]