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“... control the more adjectives and adverbs he throws after them. In past years John Updike and Isaac BashevisSinger, among others, have made large claims on Schulz’s behalf. While his imaginative vigour is indeed comparable with that of his great European predecessors, his work lacks their ruthless logic, the ...”

“... to the saintly Lonoff (who Roth persistently refuses to ‘identify’ as Bernard Malamud or Isaac BashevisSinger, the critics’ choices). Zuckerman, too, has scores to settle and finds it impossible to keep his mouth shut. He, too, is possessed by demons and would sometimes quite like to turn into a ...”

“... is on the point of obliteration, and in this sense his project stands comparison with the work of Isaac BashevisSinger, and his funny, nostalgic, unsentimental stories of the Warsaw ghetto and his own Krochmalna Street. The comparison with Singer suggests itself because, despite ...”

“... He was one of the original producers on Bonnie and Clyde and quit over a minor budget dispute. Isaac BashevisSinger was a cheerful man. Kurt Vonnegut was a man you could get beers with. Donald Sutherland mooned his wedding party, or maybe it was Robert Duvall. He always asked my opinion and never treated me like a ...”

“... utter waste of time. To Ralph Ellison: ‘I’ve never enjoyed writing letters. Vasiliki says that Isaac, whose journals she took after his death, had some uncomplimentary things to say about the way I answered letters. I deserve them. There is some wickedness hidden here and I ought to root it up, even if it should mean going to an analyst. It’s part of ...”

“... barely identify himself with reality, let alone with the Jews,’ Philip Roth once observed to Isaac BashevisSinger. He was using the terms of a famous joke of disavowal in Kafka’s diaries: ‘What have I in common with the Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself.’ It’s true that Schulz was born ...”

“... only if he compared Israel to apartheid South Africa; and he bought a copy of The Penitent by Isaac BashevisSinger. Lasdun found himself identifying with the novel’s protagonist, Joseph Shapiro, a ‘regular flawed and fallen human being’ like him until he bought a ticket to Israel and returned to the faith of ...”

“... Conjunctions ran a series of reproductions of pages from a pocket diary that had belonged to Isaac BashevisSinger. In capital letters, Singer – who emigrated from Poland to America in 1935 – filled page after page with lists of words: 15 ...”

“... the dim, cute Canadian girls and the Svejk-like Lojza. The book was written in Czech, rather as Isaac BashevisSinger writes in Yiddish, to keep the language flourishing and to be translated into English. The three other novels here are suffused with a peculiar unhappiness endured by members of the English upper ...”

“... thinking, for instance, of Grass’s Danzig-become-Gdansk, of Joyce’s abandoned Dublin, of Isaac BashevisSinger and Maxine Hong Kingston and Milan Kundera and many others. It’s a long list.) On the other hand, the Indian writer, looking back at India, does so through guilt-tinted spectacles. (I am, of ...”

“... he wanders around the city. It remains his best-known work, certainly outside Norway. According to Isaac BashevisSinger, ‘the whole modern school of literature in the 20th century stems’ from it. Its novelty derived from its intense psychological subjectivity, reminiscent of Dostoevsky, and at times of Joyce. Being ...”

“... Seize the Day (1956), set in the refugee-haunted Upper West Side. Bernard Malamud was surpassed by Isaac BashevisSinger, a great figure in Yiddish literature but not one of the gang. Gazing through their fingers, the group regarded Mailer warily. His friendship with Diana Trilling began well (his opening sally, which ...”

“... possessed by later generations of Jewish Americans. I was shocked by the irreverence with which Isaac BashevisSinger, born in 1904 in Poland and in many ways the 20th century’s quintessential Jewish writer, depicted Shoah survivors in his fiction, and derided both the state of Israel and the eager philosemitism of ...”

“... which are virtually unknown in Italy, except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth, Bellow, Singer, Malamud, Potok, and of course yourself. Levi’s explained intention does not mean that there is no autobiography in the book. The wish to evoke a Jewish resistance to Nazism relates to a history which comprehends his own writings and example. And in the ...”

“... that her films’ limitations were the result of her writing style. She adapted two novels by Isaac BashevisSinger, The Manor and The Estate, both written in Yiddish, which follow several interconnected families in Poland at the end of the 19th century. She found in them the roots of ‘all the spiritual and ...”