You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Just as I was sitting down to write my review of Blake Bailey’s authorised biography of Philip Roth, ...

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 ...

The Associated Press, citing Mr. Roth’s literary agent, confirmed he had died. Mr. Roth was born in Newark, N.J. The aging industrial city featured in many of his works, dating to his first published ...

In fact, it was in 2009 at Updike’s memorial that I met him. Updike’s tribute at The New York Public Library was arranged by his editors at the New Yorker magazine and fittingly star-studded. I was ...

Prolific novelist Philip Roth, a dominant force in American literature throughout the latter half of the 20th century, has died, US media said late Tuesday. He was 85. The New Yorker magazine first ...

Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, has died at the age of 85, The New York Times ...

It wasn't exactly a secret, but it wasn't something I made mention of except to my closest friends. To everyone else, I referred to the man in my life only by his first name. How do you casually ...

The Atlantic's Joseph O'Neill penned an essay about the novelist Philip Roth for the April issue (please go on and read the whole thing), and included this sentence: "As for the personal, Roth, though ...

Jewishness and neurosis. Sexuality and the modern masculinity crisis. Damaged, intellectual and frequently adulterous men seeking solace in the bodies of younger women. When I think of Philip Roth's ...

Stanford historian Steven J. Zipperstein had already begun work on the biography before the author died in 2018, arguing why Roth remains relevant and vital, especially to current Jewish discourse.