James Wolcott talks about Cynthia Ozick at Vanity Fair.  Titles the article “The Kvetcher in the Rye.”  Even though I think he’s bashing Ozick (who I love), I still have to give him points for cleverness.

The Daily Beast interviews Ms. Ozick.

Making sense of Aleksandar Hemon’s “Jumbo Lexicon.”

Saul Bellow had a girlfriend named Yetta, and other interesting things I never knew until reading this review.

Talking about the weirdness that is Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes.

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