The New York Observer is reporting that the French language edition of Saul Bellow’s latest novel, Ravelstein, is graced by a cover that many who’ve seen it insist contains an inappropriate Jewish caricature reminiscent of those you’d see in France and Germany in the 30s and 40s:

[…] author Saul Bellow depicts the title character of his latest novel, Abe Ravelstein, as a larger-than-life bon vivant, a man with a ‘bald powerful head’ and ‘finely made hands.’ The publishers of the French edition of Mr. Bellow