Stung by Life,' Stanford professor Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who 'probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life' ...

Yes, Philip Roth liked sex. A lot. But at the end of the day, nothing mattered more to the iconic author than books, a new biography says.

When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been hard at work on a Roth biography already for several years. Roth fans such as myself ...

Roth’s fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.

The celebrated author died at age 85 on Tuesday. Philip Roth was known for his stories of lust, mortality and fate -- themes which translate well on screen. It's no surprise then that seven of his ...

During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...

Hollywood’s polished leaders and legible story arcs never quite imagined the places real-life American politics would go. By Ross Barkan For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel ...

In its recent article on Ariel Levy and John Turturro’s stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s “Sabbath’s Theater,” the New York Times called it the novelist’s “raunchiest book.” Why stop there? Let’s also ...

Philip Roth describes his admiration for Saul Bellow in Roth's final interview. In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for ...

Read full article: Danville ministry working to combat food insecurity in the area Photo of a vehicle after crashing into a building in Roanoke. Read full article: Driver injured after crashing into ...

Philip Roth’s Q&A in ‘The New Yorker’ Is As Spontaneous and Revealing As a Book-Club GuidePhilip Roth doesn’t (con)descend from his perch in the pantheon to talk to just any old magazine hack.

“Caro’s works are masterpieces of research and artistry,” says the former vice president and managing editor at Knopf Doubleday, who looks forward to — what else? — more reading, after 60 years on the ...