By Philip Weiss 10/23/00 12:00am

The Great Jewish Novel Is Relic of the 50′s

The late outpouring of love for Saul Bellow has an aftertaste-the realization that the days of the Great Jewish Novel are over. Other experiences from the last 30 years have elbowed aside the Jewish experience in the American imagination. Divorce and dysfunction stories, people of color stories, decline of the WASP aristocracy stories, that’s the Read More

By Andrew Sarris 10/23/00 12:00am

A Subway Story, Too Good to Be True

James Gray’s The Yards , from a screenplay by Mr. Gray and Matt Reeves, continues on the soulful, downbeat path across the outer boroughs that the then 24-year-old Mr. Gray marked back in 1994 with his first film, Little Odessa . In that one, his locale was Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach with its largely Russian population. Read More