The New York Times: Saul Bellow, Poet of Urban America's Dangling Men

Saul Bellow, Poet of Urban America's Dangling Men:
"His voice was instantly recognizable and inimitably his own: at once highbrow and streetwise, lofty and intimate - a voice equally at home ruminating on the great social and political ideas of the day, and chronicling the 'daily monkeyshines' of 'the cheapies, the stingies, the hypochondriacs, the family bores, humanoids' and bar-stool comedians who populate his cacophonous world. "