JTA — It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the publication in 2021 of his long-awaited biography of Roth, author Blake Bailey was credibly accused of sexual misconduct. The ...

Many of the people who drove to Penn Cinema on Monday to see one of two sold-out shows of the documentary “An American Pastoral” align with the political left. But the film, according to people on ...

Ben Black Bear Jr., at far left, with (back row) his wife Arlene, mother Iva and father Ben Black Bear Sr., and daughters (front row) Benita and Berlene, on his ordination day in 1976. Credit: St.

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 ...

Philip G. Roth passed away on July 18, 2025, at the age of 68. He was born August 24, 1956, to George Jr and Regina (Budzynski) Roth in Wausau. Phil led a simple life and somewhat stubbornly avoided ...

For its current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, through Saturday, American Ballet Theatre bookended four narrative ballets with weeklong runs of its 2000 staging of the perennially popular ...

Call it the age of the para-pastoral. At a time when popular culture is steeped in romanticized visions of a rural past—from the rise of cottagecore and “tradwife” influencers to obsessions with ...

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Sr. Rose Marie Deibel, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, born in Columbus, Ohio, died peacefully on June 17, 2025, at the age of 96 years, in the 77th year of her religious life. Her passing is mourned ...

The death of Pope Francis marks the end of an era for the Catholic Church in Latin America. As the first Latin American pontiff, his legacy in the region is complex, according to analysts consulted by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired North American rights for French filmmaker Auberi Edler’s documentary An American Pastoral, chronicling the struggles in a rural Pennsylvanian community over the ...

Shepherdstown Public Library director Christy Hagerty, right, accepts one of the Philip Roth books from Susan Hall-West, of Shepherdstown. Standing beside them are other members of the Legendary ...