“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note: “Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein”Matt Dinan, The Hedgehog Review When Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein was published twenty-five years ago, it was widely lambasted as, in the words of one critic, a “shockingly bad” memoir of “cruel violations” for revealing unsavory private details about the scholar Allan Bloom, upon whom the novel’s character Abe Ravelstein was based. But if you look a little closer, the correspondence is not so one-to…