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.

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' ...

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 ...

The death of Philip Roth on Tuesday at 85 from congestive heart failure has people around the world reflecting on his body of work. His obituary in The New York Times described him as a “towering ...

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 ...

In “Philip Roth: Stung by Life,” Steven J. Zipperstein springs the trap. His approach is straightforward: center the writing without pretending the life is dispensable. “There was nothing of greater ...

“Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman,” the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, “has exhausted the possibilities of his character,” the fictional adventurer of “The Ghost Writer,” “The ...

One might as well come out and say it: The death of Philip Roth marks, in its way, the end of a cultural era as definitively as the death of Pablo Picasso did in 1973. One might as well come out and ...