NEW YORK (Reuters) - American novelist Philip Roth dislikes e-books and the distracting influences of modern technology, which he feels diminishes the ability to appreciate the beauty and aesthetic ...
The American writer’s last novel becomes surprisingly effective theater in the hands of Tiphaine Raffier at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle attended the “Nemesis” ...
Nemesis by Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 pp., $26 Philip Roth is perhaps the most celebrated of living American writers, the recipient of our most prestigious awards. It says something ...
NEW YORK — Exit, Philip Roth? Having conceived everything from turning into a breast to a polio epidemic in his native New Jersey, Roth has apparently given his imagination a rest. The 79-year-old ...
Renowned for his exploration of Jewish and American identities, Philip Roth — author of Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral — returns to familiar ground in his latest work, ...
No objective reader of Philip Roth will ever doubt Roth's infinite number of ways to undermine his own elegance with a virtuoso's arsenal of dubious vulgarity (his truest literary faith?) but you ...
Seminal author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such ...
NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...
In his new novel, Philip Roth sets a fictional yet plausible polio outbreak in his New Jersey hometown. Set in 1944, Nemesis describes the fear... Polio Breaks Out In Newark In Roth's 'Nemesis' ...