The Washington Post, October 4th, 1998
IF I AM OUT OF MY mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog." If I read that sentence one more time, I will go out of my mind, thought Richard Cohen. This is the 8th, 9th, 10th time I have opened Saul Bellow's Herzog, the book that probably won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention a National Book Award. Each time I make a pass at Herzog I find myself in awe of it. Bellow and I are both writers, which is like saying Lincoln and Clinton are both presidents, but it is not intimidation that makes me drop it. It is, rather, something else: fatigue. At the end of the day, whic...
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