In a career that spans fifty years, Meyer Levin has assured himself a place in American letters as a realist, a social critic, and an American Jewish writer of note. Levin has been a novelist, playwright, short-story writer, columnist, editor,...

Although a writer on the American-Jewish scene for over fifty years, Meyer Levin never received the kind of critical or popular acclaim bestowed on many of his contemporaries. Despite this fact, Levin was a consistent writer who produced a wide variety...

Jewish-American novelist, journalist, and filmmaker Meyer Levin contributed several books to the proletarian social fiction movement of the 1930s and early 1940s. His two best known literary works are the Chicago-based novels The Old Bunch (1937),...

Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist who commented on the Leopold and Loeb case and wrote the 1956 novel Compulsion inspired by it. Levin had attended college with Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago, before...

Danièle Thompson’s Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d’Orchestre), from a screenplay by Ms. Thompson and her son, Christopher Thompson (in French with English subtitles), plays out as a perky Parisian Right Bank boulevard comedy with more than the usual traumatically life-altering situations among the self-consciously arty types...