Add Philip Roth to the growing roster of people unhappy to discover what someone else has written about them online. The author today issued a 2,500-plus-word missive to Wikipedia, informing the ...

Ten years after someone first wrote a Wikipedia entry for Philip Roth's best-selling novel The Human Stain, published in 2000, the great author has discovered the latest entry and he is not happy. As ...

The art of film adaptation involves purposeful distortion. Even the most faithful adaptations of the most cinematic novels require compression and concision -- which lead, in turn, to restructuring, ...

Philip Roth is considered an expert in many things. The lost days of old-time Newark, and its rich Jewish culture? Check. The works of Milan Kundera, Primo Levi and other modern European writers?

“Spooks.” That one word changes the course of Coleman Silk’s life. When two students in his Greek literature class consistently fail to answer as he calls their names from the attendance roster, week ...

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 ...

The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public. By ...

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 ...

As the pieces of the upcoming 'American Pastoral' movie fall into place, Ewan McGregor's casting isn't the only oft-repeated mistake this movie is making. Now seems as good a time as any to remind ...

MONTREAL — Robert Benton’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, and Joel Schumacher’s Irish-set thriller “Veronica Guerin,” toplining Cate ...

Like the protagonist in his latest film, The Human Stain, director Robert Benton revealed that for years he's been struggling with a difficult, sensitive issue that has profoundly affected both his ...

What it is: A film, based on the novel by Philip Roth, about an impetuous classics professor at the fictional Athena College who resigns amid accusations of racism and begins an affair with a troubled ...