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.

Q&A with Tommasso Debenedetti.

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 ...

I was in Seoul two weeks back, attending the 37th Asian Racing Conference, where I delivered a presentation on racing and the horse in popular culture. I started, naturally enough, with Shakespeare’s ...

Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

There’s a lot to dislike about his vast body of work, but he remains ‘a writer of substance and vision.’ In an episode of “The Office,” a pizza delivery guy calls Michael Scott a “loser.” Dwight, ...

Former Lusher Middle School teacher Blake Bailey, whose acclaimed biography of Philip Roth was taken out of print by its original publisher earlier this year following allegations that he raped ...

In the Vesuvian spume of bile, gossip, and recriminations that spouted forth upon publication of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography, this unseemly detail emerged: Roth was convinced that his former ...

Much has changed in recent weeks. Last month, Bailey’s publisher, W.W. Norton, announced that it was halting promotion and distribution of the book after Bailey was accused of grooming, and in one ...

Three weeks after W.W. Norton dropped its Philip Roth biography, following accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against its author, Blake Bailey, the book has found a new home. On Monday, ...