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 ...

Philip Roth reads from his book, American Pastoral (1997). It’s Roth’s elegy for the 20th Century’s promises of prosperity, civic order and domestic bliss. American Masters explores the life and ...

NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...

Roth’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, said that he passed away in a New York City hospital of congestive heart failure. The author of more than 25 books, Roth was a fierce satirist and uncompromising ...

This has been a big year for the cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth novels. First came “Indignation,” an emotionally tinged story of loss and yearning set in the 1950s.

This essay, informed by Annette Kolodny's research on the “pastoral impulse,” re-examines Philip Roth's subversion of myth in American Pastoral (1997), illuminating the ways Roth exposes and critiques ...

“How could a big man like you fuck up like this?” That’s the question that Nathan Zuckerman fears being asked — in Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral (1997) — if he were to show the book ...

Wondering where to watch American Pastoral online? We have all the streaming details right here. American Pastoral is a 2016 drama film based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It tells ...

Jennifer Connelly has joined the upcoming adaptation of American Pastoral. The Noah actress will star opposite Ewan McGregor in the movie version of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. What to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The life of Philip Roth was a story. So was the writing of his biography. Blake Bailey's “Philip Roth,” a volume Roth had imagined in some form for more than 20 years, comes out April ...

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