Saul Bellow, “Ravelstein” – 240 pages. Character portrait of Bellow’s bff Allan Bloom, with Bellow and Bloom renamed as Chick and Ravelstein, respectively. The book kind of meanders (no plot – at the opening of the novel Ravelstein has died 6 years before of AIDS, and at the end Chick has his own brush with death, but that is pretty much the sum…[Read more]