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 ...
Philip Roth’s Q&A in ‘The New Yorker’ Is As Spontaneous and Revealing As a Book-Club GuidePhilip Roth doesn’t (con)descend from his perch in the pantheon to talk to just any old magazine hack.
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 ...
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American writer Philip Milton Roth, in New York City. (Orjan F. Ellingvag / Dagbladet / Corbis via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...
If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list. The parent-child relationships in ...
His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn’t be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives. By ...
Philip Roth's 2007 novel, Exit Ghost, the final installment of the long-running Zuckerman series, examines the ways a writer's legacy can be transformed after death. This essay considers how Roth's ...
UPDATE: The following story was written before a remarkable series of events played out around “Philip Roth: The Biography.” Nearly a month after release, publisher W.W. Norton & Co. temporarily ...
It isn’t often you get to see someone reach out from the grave and do more damage to himself than he managed to do while he was alive, but novelist Philip Roth has apparently succeeded in pulling off ...