The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

HarperCollins

May 2007, 432 pages, $26.95

by Carlin Romano

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

Michael Chabon writes the best Saul Bellow novel since Saul Bellow died -- antic, droll, brainy, Yiddishy, secular, updated to present-day American -- but with differences that reflect literary times and their discrepant personalities.
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