Lisa Halliday’s “Asymmetry” and new biography of Nobel Prize novelist: Before you read them, please search Philip Roth and Saul Bellow in this blog

One of the characters in Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry is a “novelist who is partly modeled on Philip Roth” (1).

A new biography of Saul Bellow tries to answer his deathbed question, “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” (2).

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/books/review/lisa-halliday-asymmetry.html

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/books/review/zachary-leader-life-saul-bellow.html