Article: Fact and Fiction by Yoram Kaniuk.(Review) (book review)

Should novelists be writing nonfiction? After all, novelists, by definition, compose bubbe-meinses, made-up stories that betray their own frequently warped view of reality. Is this proper training for writing about the real world, real people, grimy politics? Alas, there's no stopping them. Saul Bellow makes a trip to Jerusalem and writes a book that is more than a travelogue. It includes social and political observations and analysis that are breathtaking. Cynthia Ozick has just published a book of essays (not her first) that deals brilliantly with major issues, not the least of which is a powerful indictment of the distortions visited upon Anne Frank and her diary by ...

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