| 单词 | Philip Roth |
| 例句 | The Asturias judges said in a statement that "the narrative work of Philip Roth forms part of the great American novel, in the tradition of Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow and Malamud". Philip Roth scoops Asturias award and pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes 2012-06-07T11:53:11Z With that opening sentence of Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth stepped into his writing career in 1959 at the age of 26. Death and the Maiden: Meryl Streep’s Tribute to Philip Roth 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The concluding sentence of Philip Roth’s novel is a punch line, turning the tale that has come before into an extended Jewish joke. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Pacino's second film is The Humbling, based on Philip Roth's final novel, with the Oscar winner starring as a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a woman half his age. Toronto Film Festival 2014: Ones to watch 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Waking up each morning, all I could think of was, “Philip Roth wrote here — what am I going to do today?” Want to Get Into an Artists’ Retreat? Go as a Tourist 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth,” a volume Roth had imagined in some form for more than 20 years, comes out April 7. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The serious walkers of our era include Philip Roth, who would punctuate his morning work with a five-mile walk. Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z “Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth?” the novelist asked. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The first of these, The Humbling, provided a paunchy, punch-drunk adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. Manglehorn review – Renaissance man Al Pacino delivers a masterclass as a lion in winter 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z None of this meant anything to Philip Roth. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The result, as Variety put it, is a film “as flat and strangled as Philip Roth’s novel is furious and expansive”. American Pastoral and the curse of adapting a literary classic 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z This widely quoted passage is exhibit A in the case for Cheever as, in Philip Roth's phrase, an "enchanted realist". A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z Right now, Levinson seems as invested in “The Humbling,” his new film based on Philip Roth’s 2009 novel about a panicked actor late in life. Barry Levinson sings a new tune as ‘Diner’ heads to the stage 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z After all, the 79-year-old Philip Roth, after a similarly half-century-spanning career, told the world he was "done" with writing last year, and hasn't looked back. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z “The nightmare was over,” young Philip Roth says. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Philip Roth still occupies an unusual place in my heart. Michael Lewis: By the Book 2014-04-10T14:00:01Z Philip Roth, a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was asked recently in The New York Times if it bothered him to be repeatedly passed over. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In a blurb printed on “There Is Too Much to Think About,” Bellow’s friend Philip Roth loyally contends that Bellow was among those rare novelists “who writes nonfiction comparable in strength to their fiction.” Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth, of course — who was no stranger to physical suffering. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “It was an interesting way to approach this character in a Philip Roth piece, who’s so often criticized for being anti-feminist,” said Ms. Gadon, who was surprised by the humor and fun of Plath’s journals. Breakthrough Performances From the Summer Movies Season 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It had a screwball authority, as Philip Roth once said of a Saul Bellow novel. Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The death of Philip Roth on Tuesday at the age of 85 from congestive heart failure has people around the world reflecting on his body of work. A Philip Roth Reader 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I hear you have a great one about Jackie O. and Philip Roth. Table For Three: A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine 2014-04-25T22:08:35Z It sometimes seems that the secondary function of the Nobel committee is to deprive Philip Roth of a prize. Patrick Modiano's Nobel in Literature: The Swedes Got It Right 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z There are names that consistently appear, year after year, in Nobel speculation — Murakami, Adonis, Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bob Dylan. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Fifty-five years ago, the twenty-six-year-old Philip Roth published his first story in The New Yorker, “Defender of the Faith.” Philip Roth Is Good for the Jews 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Philip Roth's Nemesis is about a polio epidemic. Freedom is not the only book in town 2010-10-03T18:59:00Z American-Jewish author Philip Roth once described Appelfeld as a “displaced writer of displaced fiction, who made displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own”. Aharon Appelfeld, acclaimed Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor, d 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z She became a vocal critic of Miss America, particularly its white-bread homogeneity, but her own experiences gained literary immortality: She advised Philip Roth on his portrayal of an ex-Miss New Jersey in “American Pastoral.” ‘Looking for Miss America’ Tells the History of the Legendary Pageant 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Photograph by Martha Holmes/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Philip Roth's recent novels have often gestured playfully towards the idea of a serene late style. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z After Annie Hall he emerged as the lovechild of Chaplin and Bergman and Buñuel by way of Philip Roth, and one of the greatest artists in the history of cinema. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This novel, like Bowman’s other work but even more strenuously, tries to capture what Philip Roth famously called the “indigenous American berserk.” An Encyclopedic Novel Intent on Reliving the Baby Boomers’ Touchstone Moments. All of Them. 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z And Mr. Williams was born into the same 1930s Newark that shaped Philip Roth, while Ms. Cruz came of age in Santa Cruz, Calif., skateboarding and listening to punk. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z Rowling was at the gala to accept the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, which has also been awarded to Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison. J.K. Rowling defends 'offensive and bigoted' Donald Trump's free speech 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Urban Beat for Poetry Festival Count Philip Roth, Allen Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka among the native sons of Newark, a place more often associated with urban woes than with distinguished wordsmiths. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z "For more than 50 years Philip Roth's books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience," he said. Booker Prize win for Philip Roth 2011-05-18T08:00:01Z He’s close at times to the sort of character Philip Roth has described as a “letter-to-the-editor madman.” A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z A copy of the memoir was on a dresser in the Talbots’ hotel room here next to a stack of books by Philip Roth, W.G. Critic?s Notebook: In Cannes, an Upbeat View of the Film World 2011-05-17T22:26:50Z Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at age 93. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Ozick only briefly mentions the author of the latest Philip Roth biography before devoting the bulk of her bulky review justifying the problematic Roth and his uneven oeuvre. Philip Roth, ‘Middlemarch’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth made a similar mistake in “Portnoy’s Complaint,” retreating from the heights of hilarity into all that Monkey business. A Heroine Checks In to the Psychiatric Ward, and Takes Notes 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z This happens to be nearly exactly the name of a real article written about the real Philip Roth by the real critic Vivian Gornick! From Philip Roth to Dave Chappelle, how an artist's "meta move" fuels an endless cancel culture war 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “I learned the value of humor during the time of Stalinist terror,” he told Philip Roth in a 1980 interview that ran in The New York Times Book Review. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The first short story that Philip Roth published, “You Can’t Tell a Man By the Song He Sings,” was in a 1957 issue of Commentary. Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z It’s not an unknown subject in fiction; where would Philip Roth be without it? Reign’s Royal Scandal: What’s So Shocking About Masturbation? 2013-10-15T14:51:02Z Ms. Pierpont appeared first, with the talk “The Women in Philip Roth’s Fiction,” a response to the charges of misogyny that have long been brought against his work. Philip Roth Says He Has Given His Last Public Reading 2014-05-09T21:35:45Z Philip Roth wrote that the body’s surface is “as serious a thing as there is in life.” In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z In any case, the real governing spirit here isn’t Foer but the frequently name-dropped Philip Roth; Abe seems to aspire not just to his stature but also to his characters’ unapologetic selfishness. Review: In ‘The Wanderers,’ Two Marriages and a Movie Star 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z As Philip Roth said: “Old age isn’t a battle, it’s a massacre.” Getting fit in middle age: a marathon addict, a couch potato and others share their pain 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Josipovici extended his criticism to one of the behemoths of modern US writing, Philip Roth. Feted British authors are limited, arrogant and self-satisfied, says leading academic 2010-07-28T17:25:00Z Franzen's experience in Britain is reminiscent of a novel by his elder Philip Roth. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z The agent, who represents Philip Roth and Dave Eggers, was asked who came to mind when thinking about this latest literary sensation. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z But I also thought: After all the Philip Roth novels in this world, why am I reading this particular story now? Are Creative Types Inherently Wicked? Ask Tom Bissell. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z It's long been acceptable to read the Financial Times and also watch the Eurovision Song contest, read Philip Roth as well as Marian Keyes. Why women love Fifty Shades of Grey 2012-07-06T21:55:24Z One might as well come out and say it: The death of Philip Roth marks, in its way, the end of a cultural era as definitively as the death of Pablo Picasso did in 1973. Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Harold Bloom called him a descendant of Laurence Sterne, and Philip Roth compared him to Beckett. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The scene is staged perfectly: an immaculate apartment that unapologetically flaunts the man’s achievements: PEN/Faulkner awards, honorary degrees, hand-signed first editions from Philip Roth. Never meet your heroes: Casey Affleck accepts his Oscar while an episode of “Girls” addresses sexual harassment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It is impossible to be a person who loves sentences and not love at least some of Philip Roth. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Some critics complained of home-nation favoritism and said that Philip Roth and other fiction writers were more deserving. Tomas Transtromer, Crystalline Swedish Poet, Dies at 83 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Need I do more than mention Philip Roth’s 1972 “Kafka-esque” novel, “The Breast,” in which the male protagonist becomes transformed into a giant mammary gland? Review | ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ was a classic. Does Betty Smith’s follow-up warrant reconsideration? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z She was 26 at time — the same age as Philip Roth when he wrote “Goodbye, Columbus,” a book that also earned its author the label of a “self-hating Jew.” Ir?ne N?mirovsky: New Biography and Short Stories 2010-04-25T23:32:00Z The idea of a celibate Hanif Kureishi hero tormented by the very urges he once indulged is an excellent one — think Philip Roth in a chastity belt. A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “American Innovations” suggests Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” by way of Philip Roth’s “The Breast.” Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z Larry Brown, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth — because there’s a significant chance that a spirited debate might break out, and I love drama above all things. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In 2005, on a tour of the newly christened Philip Roth Plaza in New Jersey, he said, “Newark is my Stockholm.” Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z And perhaps so too might Philip Roth and Leonard Michaels. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z Your life entails daily interactions with George Plimpton — editing, writing, looking for the next Philip Roth. | 'My Korean Deli' 2011-03-15T19:34:55Z This sounds like a tiny homage to Philip Roth, who is certainly one of the book’s sources of inspiration. Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z He does impressions of Gary Oldman's cockney thug in the film just screened, and quotes favoured Philip Roth passages that acclaim New York, his indefinite home town. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z You’re reading along, and suddenly Philip Roth or Joseph Conrad or Wallace Stevens says something that makes it clear you are not part of the kingdom. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He didn’t brag like Norman Mailer and was spared the demons driving the madness of Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint.” Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Many of the late 20th-, early 21st-century heavyweights — Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and so on — are masters at exposing the frailty, the pointlessness, the comedy of goodness. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Last year, the medal was awarded to Philip Roth. Laurie Anderson to Receive Yaddo Artist Medal 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Philip Roth is not going to walk into a bookstore and see his work in the 'Jewish Male' section. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z Despite being expelled from Exeter, he studied at Harvard and Cambridge, and in 1953 became an editor for The Paris Review, a new magazine championing Philip Roth, Terry Southern and William Styron, among others. Movie Review: ‘Plimpton!’ Directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling 2013-05-21T22:48:07Z I have to say the name of a Philip Roth book, “Sabbath’s Theater,” so all I do every day is say “Sabbath’s Theater,” “Sabbath’s Theater,” “Sabbath’s Theater.” She Went Viral Mocking Trump. Now Sarah Cooper Is Taking on a New Role. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It's also unbelievably misogynistic, and I say that as someone who loves Flashman and Philip Roth ... Booker-longlisted novel The Slap is 'most divisive in years' 2010-07-30T23:08:00Z In this country, Philip Roth, a contemporary and admirer of le Carré, is another member of that elite. Review | At 85, John le Carré emerges with a sequel to ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z What is the difference between a “thin pretext” and a valid request, other than whether the asker is Philip Roth or his shrewish, sinus-clogged wife? Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Novels were told from the perspective of a woman imprisoned for murder, a woman who suddenly inherits a Great Dane and a woman having an affair with a writer who strongly resembles Philip Roth. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z There’s a repeating motif in David Simon’s passionate, gutting adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America.” Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Like Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America,” this is a mighty work of counterfactual history. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The little blue tablet had created a situation where ageing authors such as Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow could write with accuracy about ageing male protagonists enjoying full relations with younger women. Dirty Grandpa and the return of Viagra Cinema 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z There he was at the center of a writerly cohort that included Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, and his classroom became a showcase for visiting literary eminences. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z The last passage of the episode is a nasty joke that Philip Roth himself would surely appreciate. The Cunning “American Bitch” Episode of “Girls” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Philip Roth, in “Reading Myself and Others,” called the unsent letter “a flourishing subliterary genre with a long and moving history.” Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z "I gave it more than a passing thought that when Philip Roth came back to New York he had an explosive three years and wrote three long novels," says Amis. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z One of my favorite accounts of a conversation was written by the English novelist Ian McEwan after he met Philip Roth. Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z "Philip Roth: Unmasked" will air on March 29, 10 days after Roth's 80th birthday. Philip Roth to be featured on `American Masters' 2013-01-15T17:12:07Z My cackling, baleful Philip Roth may not be yours; your solemn Iris Murdoch may not be mine. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z Norton & Company, “Philip Roth” received mostly positive reviews, although critics for The New York Times and The New Republic found Bailey too indulgent of Roth’s behavior towards women. Philip Roth biography, pulled last month, has new publisher 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z There has perhaps never been a more exclusively British Booker winner than Hilary Mantel: her fictional version of Tudor Britain owes nothing to Philip Roth, that's for sure. Why American modern art blows British talent out of the water 2013-02-18T16:51:31Z Philip Roth has been a perennial favorite but has not been selected. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z Frankly, this all sounds to me like the plot of a Philip Roth novel.” ArtsBeat: Philip Roth Wins Man Booker International Prize in Disputed Decision 2011-05-18T13:47:43Z At least Philip Roth seems to believe so. Philip Roth to Appear on 'Colbert Report' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And after waiting 23 years for an American to win the literature prize — Toni Morrison was our last one — wouldn’t the Swedes finally recognize DeLillo or Philip Roth or Joyce Carol Oates? Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Although Penthouse published some quality writing by authors including Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, Guccione purposely went downmarket from Playboy with racier news stories, scandal coverage and tabloid headlines. Bob Guccione obituary 2010-10-21T17:51:00Z Philip Roth, a friend of Professor Bloom’s, garnered six mentions. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” is about a light-skinned black man passing as a Jewish professor at a Massachusetts college. Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z American-Jewish author Philip Roth once described Appelfeld as a “displaced writer of displaced fiction, who made displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own”. Aharon Appelfeld, acclaimed Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor, d 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z While Patrimony's title hints at a postmodern game, there is nothing playful about the clear-eyed, plain-spoken integrity with which Philip Roth observes his father's dying and remembers his father's life. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z “I had to decide between a trip across the Pacific with a tiger, or to pick up the angry, older Philip Roth,” Mr. Lee said in a phone interview. James Schamus, a Hollywood Honcho, Takes on Directing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Will he stop writing now, as Philip Roth claims to have done? James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z After all, the book, a coming of age story, is not particularly comic in the way that, for instance, the early sex-mad tomes of Philip Roth and Martin Amis were. Bad Sex in Fiction Awards ceremony celebrates 24th year 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The stunning truth is that I am asking, deep down, as I write, What would Philip Roth think of this? This must-read essay lights a match, aims for the sexist book world: “Let us burn this motherf*cking system to the ground” 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z In 2004, when Philip Roth published his speculative fiction novel The Plot Against America, the perfect title had already been taken. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Although Philip Roth passed away in 2018 at the age of 86, his career has much to teach us about today's cancel culture wars. From Philip Roth to Dave Chappelle, how an artist's "meta move" fuels an endless cancel culture war 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z In the last 40 years, only two novels with significant comic ambitions have won the National Book Award: James McBride’s “The Good Lord Bird” and Philip Roth’s “Sabbath’s Theater.” Review: ‘Man at the Helm,’ Nina Stibbe’s Comic First Novel 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Why is it unreasonable for Philip Roth to be asked to purchase an ingredient for the dinner he is presumably going to eat? Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth declared his 1986 book “A Perfect Spy” “the best English novel since the war.” John le Carré Fans Are Getting One More Novel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Lifetime movies and Philip Roth don’t usually pop up in the same frame of reference. Review: ‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Philip — whose name, in the 2005 book by Philip Roth, was Philip Roth — is a sensitive, curious child, perhaps a novelist in the making, and more the observer of the story than its protagonist. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Philip Roth famously said, “Sheer playfulness and deadly seriousness are my closest friends,” and Kelman captures this brilliantly in Bibhuti, who is so sweetly and strongly written. ‘Man on Fire’ review: Salvation through extreme record-breaking 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Philip Roth wrote with poise; His prose made you shiver. Style Invitational Week 1313: Dead Letters — our obit poem contest 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Jacobson, meanwhile, has described himself as "a Jewish Jane Austen" while others have called him a "British Philip Roth". Howard Jacobson wins the Booker for The Finkler Question 2010-10-12T20:48:00Z Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Jackie is having a walkabout with Philip Roth, and he is notoriously not nice to women. Table For Three: A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine 2014-04-25T22:08:35Z Fans and scholars alike tend to believe that Philip Roth wrote sporadically and sympathetically, though perhaps not entirely unproblematically, about Black people. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z “What the obsessive man still wanted, when he wasn’t blissfully muttering in bed, was an apology,” Bailey writes in “Philip Roth.” In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z He quotes Philip Roth on the latter point: “Usually about half way through the book the original impulse weakens and then he gets a mess in the middle.” A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s some Mark Twain in them, to American eyes at any rate, also some early Philip Roth and a fair amount of J. D. Salinger. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The mighty Philip Roth, meanwhile, went one better and said that A Perfect Spy was "the best English novel since the war". Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z To put it bluntly, The Corrections made it plausible to speak of Franzen in the company of Philip Roth. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom: the novel of the century 2010-08-23T11:18:00Z “Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth?” Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Finally, for his first film as director, Ewan McGregor has chosen to adapt Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, a postwar drama about a family coping with political turmoil. Lights, camera, aliens … what we’ll be talking about at the movies next year 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Newark's the hapless Nets but also Philip Roth. The endlessly bizarre duality of New Jersey 2011-08-04T18:50:00Z It added that the Nobel decision certainly "must not have pleased real writers, such as potential winners Don DeLillo, Philip Roth or Haruki Murakami, who know the enormous work that goes into writing a novel." Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Did you talk with Philip Roth about how you wanted to pursue this film? Al Pacino and Barry Levinson on Age, Accomplishments and 'The Humbling' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z So come, and let us praise the Nobel committee for its honorific omission, this majestic absence that joins Philip Roth to Mark Twain, James Joyce and Tolstoy: He has something in common with each. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Syrian poet Adonis, Americans Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, South Korea's Ko Un and Algerian writer Assia Djebar are among the names figuring in speculation ahead of this year's prize. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z Among the artifacts is a letter from Philip Roth written in April 1993, shortly after his first appearance marking his 60th birthday, in which he promised to return for his 70th. ArtsBeat: 92nd Street Y Reading Series Announces 75th Anniversary Season 2013-07-18T16:01:28Z Indeed, Silverberg’s signature novel, “Dying Inside” — about a telepath losing his powers — could almost have been written by Philip Roth, and is just as brilliant, mordant and moving as “Portnoy’s Complaint.” Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Philip Roth calls him in “The Human Stain,” as the novel’s protagonist watches him play Prokofiev at Tanglewood. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Tried to read Philip Roth but gave up as he is too Jewish. Digested read: Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970–1983, by Christopher Isherwood 2012-06-17T18:00:01Z HBO’s “The Plot Against America” is based on Philip Roth’s novel that posits a repressive 1930s U.S. government led by Charles Lindbergh, the real-life aviation hero and anti-Semitic isolationist. Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Even in Philip Roth’s satirical fantasy “Our Gang,” Nixon and the other characters had fictional names, as did the Clintons et al. in Joe Klein’s “Primary Colors.” A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “Deception” is a fairly faithful adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel — a book that Desplechin has long desired to commit to screen. ‘Deception’ Review: Verbal Fetishism 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z After sending six handwritten stories to the University of Iowa, she was accepted into the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied with Philip Roth and Vance Bourjaily in her first year. Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The book strained his relationship with a mutual friend, Philip Roth, about whom Atlas released an audiobook in February. James Atlas, author and editor of biographies, dies at 70 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The Americans who have been named as contenders include Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth, who is 78. ArtsBeat Blog: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday 2011-10-03T14:52:30Z And Philip Roth's latest novel, Nemesis, in which he returns to Newark to tell the story of a 1944 polio epidemic, will be available from Thursday. Freedom is not the only book in town 2010-10-03T18:59:00Z Philip Roth said of Ms. Erdrich in an email: “She is, like Faulkner, one of the great American regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of her place, as he did his.” Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘LaRose,’ and the Psychic Territory of Native Americans 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Philip Roth has been a supporter of yours. Chloe Hooper: 'I see this as an anti-erotic novel' 2013-01-19T18:00:01Z Did researching and reporting the book change your opinion of any of the major authors in it, who include Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth? ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z Over 40 years ago Philip Roth put his finger on a problem which was going to challenge the novelist's profession as much as mine. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z So, fair enough, there are some significant differences between Philip Roth and Lena Finkle. ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,’ Anya Ulinich’s Graphic Novel 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Philip Roth is the darling of opponents of the Swedish Academy, who believe the veteran American novelist has been overlooked. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z Perhaps readers expect women to write nice stories about other nice women and leave all the complex, knotty stuff to the great male authors such as Philip Roth or Richard Ford. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-25T15:00:01Z The memoir is an affecting meditation on the life of a writer, on aging, friendship — and the disappointments that always seem to overshadow successes even for a “giant of American letters” like Philip Roth. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Like many, I was shocked to learn of novelist Philip Roth’s death. Philip Roth’s journey from “enemy of the Jews” to great Jewish-American novelist 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “If Philip Roth has created a Jewish mother who can actually give you heartburn, Mario Puzo has created a Sicilian father who will make you shiver every time you stroll on Mulberry Street,” Schaap wrote. What Were People Reading in the Summer of ’69? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Philip Roth: “I really enjoyed the pull thingy on Page 2 that makes the dinosaur’s mouth open.” Style Invitational Week 1131: One man’s trash 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “We’d love to have a good biography of Philip Roth that was responsible and took in things that I’m not sure the Blake Bailey biography took in anyway.” What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Norton announced that it was permanently canceling Blake Bailey’s celebrated new book, “Philip Roth: The Biography” and Bailey’s 2014 memoir, “The Splendid Things We Planned.” Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z In any given M.A. or MFA or Ph.D. program, amid those arguing over which is the best Philip Roth novel or about lesser-known Abstract Expressionists, there are those who refuse to participate in the discussion. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z And second, are we not yet persuaded that Philip Roth novels mostly make for terrible, po-faced, unenlightening movies? American Pastoral: why can't cinema get Philip Roth right? 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Axler is a singular concoction from the mind of Philip Roth, upon whose book this film is based, and embodied by an actor with the uniquely unpredictable resources of Al Pacino. 'The Humbling' is Al Pacino's act all the way 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z But her matter-of-fact, hopeful depiction of life as an elderly woman presents an encouraging antidote to the accounts of writers like Philip Roth, with their self-pitying fetishization of physical decline. In Life?s Latest Chapter, Feeling Free Again 2010-10-10T21:52:00Z Read in the immediate aftermath of Philip Roth’s death, Zipperstein’s account of the poem’s reception prompts a particular thought. Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ and ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s 2014 memoir,” the publisher announced Tuesday. Publisher pulls Philip Roth bio, cuts ties with author 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Pryce offers a more complex reprise of the Philip Roth archetype he played in “Listen Up Philip,” while Ms. Close sublimely captures her character’s blend of determination and self-effacement. Review: ‘The Wife’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of a Literary Marriage 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z "In light of them, we have decided to pause the shipping and promotion of 'Philip Roth: The Biography' pending any further information that may emerge." Publisher pauses new Philip Roth biography as author, Blake Bailey, is accused of rape and grooming 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The last recipient of the honour, 2011 winner Philip Roth, was also American. International Booker for Lydia Davis 2013-05-22T21:13:45Z Philip Roth was surrounded by admirers eager to shake his hand. A Brief Encounter with Philip Roth 2013-09-28T02:57:06Z It seems proper that Philip Roth, who has played similar games in fiction with his own life and identity, is given a name-check by the narrator. Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits ? review 2011-08-26T09:40:01Z That sounds like the plot of a Philip Roth novel! Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z So, it seems, did Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf and now Philip Roth, who suffers from arthritis in one shoulder. RSI: a very sore point for writers 2010-09-17T10:21:00Z In the garden of his house in Connecticut, Philip Roth has a studio in which he writes. William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z "At this stage, they are allegations, and we continue to publish 'Philip Roth: The Biography.'" Publisher pauses new Philip Roth biography as author, Blake Bailey, is accused of rape and grooming 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The list of finalists includes three authors from the United States: Anne Tyler, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson. ArtsBeat: John le Carr?, the Unwilling Prize Nominee 2011-03-30T16:20:32Z He observes how Jewish kids like Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Woody Allen and Philip Roth were socialized academically and otherwise into American culture and “went on to take possession of it.” ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Again, he is well aware of this: when described as "the English Philip Roth", he likes to call himself "the Jewish Jane Austen". Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z May I stretch your “working today” criteria to include Richard Wilbur and Philip Roth, who, in the eye of eternity, were still working the day before yesterday? ‘Why Have a Large Library and Not Use It?’ Janet Malcolm: By the Book 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It was, to borrow words the former New York Times critic Anatole Broyard once used to describe a middling Philip Roth novel, “reasonably funny, reasonably sad, reasonably interesting.” Garrison Keillor Turns Out the Lights on Lake Wobegon 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z But this is something else and, considering all the real hatred in the world, Mr. Foxman is, like those who railed at Philip Roth a generation or two ago, howling in the wrong direction.” Jewish Group Objects to Lena Dunham's 'Dog or Jewish Boyfriend' Story 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Thus “How the End Begins” contains references to, and detours through, everything and everyone from Dante to Terry Southern, Grimm’s fairy tales to Philip Roth, and Faust to Cormac McCarthy. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Ms. O’Brien has a taste for excellent writing and excellent conversation, and among the writers who circulate through this memoir are Samuel Beckett, Philip Roth, Harold Pinter and Günter Grass. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z Ann Claire, a milliner, was there not long ago to get flowers for a hatpin she was making for the HBO adaptation of “The Plot Against America,” a Philip Roth novel. These Flowers Have Been Growing for 103 Years 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Philip Roth did so almost 20 years ago. Letters to the Editor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z For a while, Philip Roth was my new bitter enemy, but lately, unexpectedly, he has become a friend as well. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z How do we balance the tonic and witty warmth of a Philip Roth novel against its contempt for mah-jongg-playing heifers? One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z James Atlas’s heartfelt memoir of his vexed friendship with Philip Roth is available exclusively in audiobook form. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Even Philip Roth, who called Le Carré's A Perfect Spy the best post-war English novel, wrote, in Operation Shylock, a book that can be considered a homage. A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré – review 2013-04-19T06:30:01Z Philip Roth is neither Shakespeare nor Wilde, but he has always possessed the knack of confounding his audience. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Philip Roth would later call him “America’s best reader of American literature in this century.” Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Nemesis by Philip Roth Roth's fifth novel in as many years comes with a reorganised "Books By Philip Roth" page. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z Skyhorse already is the publisher of Bailey’s “Philip Roth,” which Norton also pulled earlier this year, soon after its highly anticipated release. Memoir by Philip Roth biographer to be reissued next week 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z At Yaddo, the artists’ residency where she lived for two years and wrote “Member of the Wedding,” McCullers was famously attached to Katherine Anne Porter, whose fame was parallel to Philip Roth’s in our time. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Reading the novel, Smith “felt something impossible loosen within me,” she writes in “The I Who Is Not Me,” the inaugural Philip Roth Lecture, which she delivered at the Newark Public Library in 2016. From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The press won the rights to the book, to be written by Blake Bailey and tentatively titled "Philip Roth: The Biography," at auction. ArtsBeat: Norton To Publish Philip Roth Biography 2012-09-28T19:19:37Z Philip Roth said he only felt he was fully free when his father died. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z He was, to a publisher, what Philip Roth would likely be to a psychoanalyst: the nightmare client who knows the tricks of the trade better than the experts. Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z There are thoughtful mini-essays on Philip Roth and Kafka, for example. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z People always suppose that I'm routed in the American Jewish tradition of great writers such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Joseph Heller but I was always a very conventional English literature man. Q&A: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question 2010-10-15T16:25:00Z I should forsake him, and Dylan, and Philip Roth — despite my love of the fidelity to some sexual truth in his novels — for the sexism in their work. Just like a woman: I’m a feminist and I love Bob Dylan—even though I know I shouldn’t 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Michals shoots expressive portraits of expressive people: find Philip Roth, René Magritte, Meryl Streep and more in this compilation of a half-century of work. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The Mailer anthology will soon have a home alongside books by Woody Allen and a biography of Philip Roth by Blake Bailey. Reports of Norman Mailer’s cancellation have been greatly exaggerated 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z But I have always wanted to be at a table with Philip Roth, who was a neighbor in Connecticut I never summoned the courage to invite over. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The great Philip Roth, and I call him that because he's the greatest, for me, American novelist — he's thinking about an actor losing his talent. Al Pacino faces actors' nightmares in Philip Roth's 'The Humbling' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Skyhorse Publishing told The Associated Press on Monday that it will have “Philip Roth: The Biography” available in paperback June 15, and hopes to have the e-book and audio editions ready by Wednesday. Philip Roth biography, pulled last month, has new publisher 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z It is why heavyweights like Ralph Ellison and Philip Roth climbed into the ring with him. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Instinctively I want to shout, ‘No, Philip Roth, a taste isn’t nearly enough, and who in their right mind would accept that?’ Amid the pandemic, an adventure addict finds solace in imagination 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Forty years on, when Philip Roth wanted to describe a similar coming down, in American Pastoral, he also turned to basketball: "Swede" Levov was, like Rabbit, a star high-school athlete. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The music to listen to while reading Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” if you can bear to use it as background music, is Beethoven’s last quartet, his sixteenth, in F Major, Opus 135, his final completed composition. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z In this week’s issue, Charles McGrath interviews Philip Roth about his career and America’s strange political moment. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Philip Roth made headlines a year and a half ago with the announcement that he had stopped writing fiction. Philip Roth Says He Has Given His Last Public Reading 2014-05-09T21:35:45Z Over the years the workshop’s faculty and students have included some of the biggest names in American literature — Philip Roth, Flannery O’Connor and Kurt Vonnegut among them. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “In the ’60s I remember that Philip Roth was very angry at being called a Jewish writer. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z A more meaningful inflection point may have come in May, with the death of Philip Roth. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z In his landmark 1961 essay “Writing American Fiction,” Philip Roth observed that “actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.” Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z So when I’m really starting to go nuts, I recall a quote from the late novelist Philip Roth’s book “The Dying Animal”: Amid the pandemic, an adventure addict finds solace in imagination 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Like Philip Roth’s 2010 novel “Nemesis,” it also encompasses the polio epidemic that raged through the country in those days, an epidemic that will have a profound effect on Crowley’s central characters. Review | John Crowley continues an uncharacteristically prolific period with the singular ‘And Go Like This’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z First Philip Roth quits writing books and giving readings. Eric Clapton Says He May Stop Touring 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z During my second residency at Yaddo, a National Historic Landmark, I stayed in the same house in which Philip Roth once wrote. Want to Get Into an Artists’ Retreat? Go as a Tourist 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He has produced a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book — a Ragtime-esque “memoir” featuring a self-annotating narrator out of a Philip Roth novel and childlike hero out of “Being There.” 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In “American Pastoral” Philip Roth closed the circle St. Augustine opened, writing, “The not paying for things is intoxicating.” Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z You can imagine directors being warned away from adapting the work of Philip Roth. ‘Nemesis’ Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z But I didn’t really know what it meant to be a Jew — nor did I know exactly how to be Jewish — until I read Philip Roth. What Philip Roth Taught Me About Being an American Jew 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He is outspoken on Twitter, bemoaning everything from the death of the author Philip Roth to the quality of Chinese takeout in Germany. The Pugnacious Performer Who Wants to Take the Harpsichord Mainstream 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z I have been a loyal reader of all of Philip Roth’s books, and now Blake Bailey’s astonishing biography. Philip Roth, ‘Middlemarch’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z In the loss of Philip Roth, we can hear a small sliding hisslike noise: the sound of a generation turning on its hinge. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z This may be why Philip Roth, or at least the version of him Lena dreams up during a Greyhound bus ride, tells her: “Don’t read me, Finkle. Read Malamud. Read ‘The Magic Barrel.' ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,’ Anya Ulinich’s Graphic Novel 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Literary peers are uniformly accorded respect, with the minor exception of Philip Roth, who is deemed to be in danger of repeating himself. Here and Now: Letters, 2008‑2011 by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee – review 2013-05-20T07:00:02Z Lonoff, the character partially based on Malamud in Philip Roth’s novel “The Ghost Writer.” The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z It's a cadence captured perfectly by Philip Roth in "Portnoy's Complaint." Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z Such a question, notes David Bezmozgis in his essay "The Novel in Real Time," once made Philip Roth worry about contemporary fiction, which he feared might be overwhelmed by "our absurd and almost unaccountable reality." Blame and forgiveness in David Bezmozgis' 'The Betrayers' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “You know, I’ve seen some people complain that Philip Roth was overlooked, and Philip Roth may be our greatest novelist since Faulkner, but novelists aren’t all of literature,” said Burnett. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z ONE of the reading rooms of the public library in Newark, New Jersey, where the teenage Philip Roth fired his imagination, is an events room now, empty of books. America across the river 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z At the end of the trailer, he uses smoked fish as a face wrap on a bench in Central Park after looking at a display of Philip Roth books and saying, “He’s everywhere.” ArtsBeat: A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest 2013-09-05T17:58:44Z “American Pastoral,” by Philip Roth, immediately upon turning 40. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “Sabbath’s Theater,” now playing at the Signature Center, is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1995 novel, which won the National Book Award. ‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro Embodies a Life and a Libido 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z He kept an eye on what Philip Roth was doing, for example, just as Roth kept an eye on him. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z Philip Roth thinks English Jews have no balls. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z No - think of all the great late work we'd miss from the likes of Philip Roth. Steven Soderbergh says he's too old to make movies. Should there be a retirement age for artists? 2011-03-28T14:31:00Z “Asymmetry” is also the title of a novel that surprised readers, in February, with its nerve and grace—and with its starring turn from a lightly fictionalized Philip Roth. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z That category contains two books by Philip Roth. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Philip Roth: Unmasked is a wonderful film: the last of the big beasts roars, with laughter. Philip Roth and no complaint: not quite unmasked, but surprisingly charming 2013-03-15T15:23:23Z Absent, too, from the new collection is “Philip Roth Reconsidered,” perhaps Howe’s most controversial literary essay. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z “I put great faith in Philip Roth,” she said, adding, “He seems so happy now.” Alice Munro Puts Down Her Pen to Let the World In 2013-07-01T21:24:22Z Philip Roth, the novelist, said that when writing, he can get to a point when he is not creating, he is just remembering his character’s memories. A ‘Menagerie’ That Fulfills a London Dream 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s a messy, uncomfortable confrontation — there will be think pieces! — but they also bond over their love of the provocateur supreme Philip Roth. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z And this was a book that, for the first time I was adapting somebody's novel and it wasn't just any somebody, it was Philip Roth. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z "For more than 50 years Philip Roth's books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience," said Rick Gekoski, chairman of the three-member judges panel. Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize 2011-05-18T10:46:04Z The Review was run for decades by founding editor George Plimpton and became known for its in-depth interviews on the writing process and for publishing early works by Philip Roth, Adrienne Rich and many others. Emily Stokes named new Paris Review editor 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Those who reflexively compare Mr. Lethem to other Jonathans, like Jonathan Franzen, would be better off invoking Philip Roth to characterize this one. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z As in Philip Roth’s “The Ghost Writer,” a young man with literary aspirations — in this case, an editor instead of a writer — finds himself torn between two rival father figures. Review: In ‘Muse,’ the Publisher Jonathan Galassi Writes What He Knows 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Figures like Philip Roth, Alfred Kazin and the younger Saul Bellow embraced American society in all its cacophonous energy. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Jong started out as a poet, and published two volumes of verse before selling “Fear of Flying” to Aaron Asher, an editor whose roster of writers included Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Arthur Miller. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z According to Philip Roth, “Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.” ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In 2013, Philip Roth was around 80, recently retired and finally at peace — or so he was fond of saying. In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, and Philip Roth, surely the greatest living writer not to have won the Nobel, might head most lists. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z There is no question, Philip Roth is one of the great writers of our era. Profile: Philip Roth 2011-03-30T13:53:28Z In his later fiction, Philip Roth has addressed the indignities of aging with a squirm-inducing candor. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Would Philip Roth prefer not to notice if the houses of Newark were cut in two? Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z Remaining copies appear to be in demand — as of Wednesday afternoon, “Philip Roth” ranked No. 35 on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Audio publisher withdraws edition of new Philip Roth bio 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But it also refers, both by allusion and by way of the “Portnoy’s Complaint” typeface used in the title sequence, to Philip Roth, the obvious model for the aging literary lion played by Jonathan Pryce. “Listen Up Philip”: Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss star in a brilliant, bristly Philip Roth knock-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z One reviewer described the book as "Neighbours as Philip Roth might have written it"; another called it "unbelievably misogynistic". Slap author Christos Tsiolkas takes swipe at 'dry' European fiction 2010-08-15T17:58:00Z A young publishing assistant named Alice embarks on a love affair with the American literary lion Ezra Blazer, who sounds and behaves very much like Philip Roth. Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The book is tentatively titled "Philip Roth: The Biography." Philip Roth biography signed up by WW Norton 2012-09-28T03:16:04Z “All the Dirty Parts” is a shockingly original novel — readers might be reminded of Philip Roth’s famously raunchy “Portnoy’s Complaint,” but while Roth’s novel ended with a punchline, Handler’s ends with a gut punch. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Philip Roth creates an alternate past in which Charles Lindbergh — the aviation hero with no political experience — soars to the top of the Republican presidential ticket by exploiting the country’s paranoia about minorities. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Over the course of a heady 30-minute episode, they spar, laugh and connect over Philip Roth. Lena Dunham and Matthew Rhys on the Latest ‘Girls’ Provocation 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s even made the move into directing, stepping up to the plate last year for American Pastoral, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, after Phillip Noyce dropped out. Ewan McGregor: ‘What if I'm not Scottish enough any more?’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Philip Roth, the writer of classic novels like Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral, announced his retirement from writing last year. Philip Roth and no complaint: not quite unmasked, but surprisingly charming 2013-03-15T15:23:23Z “Yes, some people are going to think of Philip Roth, but Ezra Blazer is a work of fiction,” she said. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “He was going to a lecture about me at a synagogue. Uh-oh, I thought. The title of the lecture was ‘Is Philip Roth an Anti-Semite?’ Philip Roth Is Good for the Jews 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Munro said she was encouraged by the example of Philip Roth, who declared that he was done last fall, as he was getting ready to turn 80. Alice Munro Puts Down Her Pen to Let the World In 2013-07-01T21:24:22Z Philip Roth once called out to him, “Remember, Saul Bellow am de daddy of us all.” Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z He is not expecting any of his colleagues to follow Carmen Callil, who resigned in 2011 when her fellow judges awarded the prize to Philip Roth, a writer she didn't "rate … at all". Man Booker International prize 2013 reveals shortlist 2013-01-24T15:01:54Z Meanwhile, fellow novelists and critics like Charles Johnson, Salman Rushdie, Stanley Crouch and, in what may have been his last interview, a captivating Philip Roth certify or question Bellow’s place in the American pantheon. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Previous winners of the PEN/Faulkner award include Philip Roth, E.L. Book of short stories wins PEN/Faulkner prize 2013-03-19T17:42:11Z “The Great American Novel” by Philip Roth is a wonderful, rollicking satire of baseball history and mythology. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Baseball's Opening Week 2012-04-06T16:28:27Z I read the collected works of Philip Roth to the music of Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, and Jimi Hendrix provided a somewhat inappropriate soundtrack to “The Lovely Bones.” Motherlode: A Mother's Right to Drive 2011-06-21T16:41:43Z They contain an awareness, too, that as Philip Roth contended in “American Pastoral,” the body’s surface is “about as serious a thing as there is in life.” Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z You wanted more sinew and guile from his work, more Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z For American audiences, as the Guardian notes in a tongue-in-cheek write-up, this means that yet again Philip Roth has been snubbed. Your guide to Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A recent Christie’s auction reeled in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Philip Roth and Don DeLillo first editions, crammed with scrawled annotations. Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Today, the novelist Philip Roth consciously practices a "late style", describing his recent novels as Late Roth. Real artists never retire ? or do they? 2011-03-22T11:48:34Z To literary insiders, Ezra Blazer bears a striking resemblance to Philip Roth. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z We were in the ornate Payne Whitney mansion, and the person expected momentarily was the famously reclusive and press-resistant author Philip Roth. A Brief Encounter with Philip Roth 2013-09-28T02:57:06Z Norton & Company will publish the previously announced authorized biography of Philip Roth, the press announced on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Norton To Publish Philip Roth Biography 2012-09-28T19:19:37Z I think of Philip Roth’s “Everyman,” the tautness by which it re-creates the life of its protagonist. A new novel by Nobelist J.M. Coetzee, 83, is a masterclass in the 'late style' at its best 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z His 1979 novel, “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” had been reviewed by John Updike in the New York Times Book Review, accompanied by an interview with Philip Roth. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z McCarthy, however, though he was born in the same year as Philip Roth, was never a member of that particular gentlemen’s club. Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn't admit it 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Simon & Schuster did publish Philip Roth, Graham Greene and Joan Didion, among others, and Snyder played a direct role in making the company a favorite home for the inside story on Washington. Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z “Philip Roth Unbound” — a reference to Roth’s novel “Zuckerman Unbound” — will run in Newark the weekend of March 17-19, around the time Roth would have turned 90. Philip Roth tribute to be held in his native New Jersey 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The antisemitic views of Lindbergh as a fictional president later became the backbone of Philip Roth’s 2005 novel “The Plot Against America.” Column: Overt racism and antisemitism have become part of our political discourse. How did that happen? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Philip Roth’s 2006 novel, “Everyman” — with its classic line, “old age isn’t a battle, it’s a massacre” — gets closest to the mood Holleran is trying to capture. Review: Andrew Holleran should be a giant of queer literature. His new novel on aging proves it 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Profound remembrances of fatherhood, including Alaskan adventures and DNA revelations, Philip Roth’s tribute and an ode to a civil rights pioneer. Fatherhood books didn't help Keith Gessen much. He wrote one anyway 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In the fall of 1970, Winkler got his first paying job as an actor, earning a solid review in The Times for a staged adaptation of three Philip Roth short stories. Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at 93. Jason Epstein, publishing innovator who put the classics in paperback, dies 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z I know my parents would have been shocked if they knew the content of the books I was reading: Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” for instance, which was banned in Australia from 1969 to 1971. Opinion | My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Six months after I wrote about the censored biography of controversial writer Philip Roth, I finally cracked the book itself. Opinion | Long before the Philip Roth biography was canceled, Jewish leaders tried to cancel him 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It's like something out of a Philip Roth book. Republicans would "rather end democracy" than turn away from Trump, says Harvard professor 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In time, she moved beyond mere political commentary to revel in her characters’ flaws — like a more socially responsible Philip Roth, though every bit as happy to be profane and fun and provocative. Who Is the Bad Art Friend? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Tolkien, George Orwell, Philip Roth and Lois Lowry, as well as children’s classics and cookbooks and lifestyle guides. Hachette to Buy Workman for $240 Million as Publishing Continues Consolidation 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The allegations are against Blake Bailey, a visiting professor to the state school in Norfolk from 2010 to 2016 and author of a widely noted biography of the writer Philip Roth. University: Allegations against ex prof will be investigated 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Contrast that with the voice of, say, Blake Bailey, the Philip Roth biographer whose publisher, W.W. Opinion | Republicans didn’t cancel Liz Cheney, because they can’t 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “Philip Roth: The Biography,” a polarizing book that was dumped by W.W. Skyhorse Publishing picks up Blake Bailey's 'Philip Roth: The Biography' 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Monica Hesse’s April 26 Style column, “A Philip Roth biography and how misogyny gets codified,” which discussed “Philip Roth: The Biography,” by Blake Bailey, was a sad testimony as to the state of criticism. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: An embarrassing decision to give this Civil War reenactment prominent coverage 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Remaining copies appear to be in demand - as of Wednesday afternoon, “Philip Roth” ranked No. 35 on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Audio publisher withdraws edition of new Philip Roth bio 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Until the allegations surfaced against Bailey, Norton was heavily invested in “Philip Roth: The Biography,” which it printed 50,000 copies of and was heavily promoting. Norton takes Philip Roth biography out of print 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The “Philip Roth: The Biography” writer has been fired by agent, paused by publisher. W.W. Norton will take Blake Bailey books out of print 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z And from the grave, Philip Roth must be ruing that he picked Bailey as the man to whom he would entrust his literary reputation. From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Biographer Blake Bailey appeared destined for a major success following the publication of his 900-page portrait of author Philip Roth earlier this month. Publisher pauses promotion of Blake Bailey’s best-selling Philip Roth biography over sexual assault claims 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “Philip Roth,” which Bailey spent nine years working on, came out April 6 and sold well enough to reach The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list. Audio publisher withdraws edition of new Philip Roth bio 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ and ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s 2014 memoir. Norton takes Philip Roth biography out of print 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Norton is taking out of print the polarizing “Philip Roth: The Biography” and the 2014 memoir “The Splendid Things We Planned,” both by Blake Bailey, after recent allegations of sexual misconduct against the writer. W.W. Norton will take Blake Bailey books out of print 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z It's too bad Philip Roth left this mortal coil before his biography was published. From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z A similarly blistering criticism of Bailey’s portrayal of women in “Philip Roth” published on a blog called Reluctant Habits sparked the new accusations. Publisher pauses promotion of Blake Bailey’s best-selling Philip Roth biography over sexual assault claims 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Norton says it won’t ship more copies of “Philip Roth: The Biography” while sexual misconduct allegations against author Blake Bailey play out. Blake Bailey, biographer of Philip Roth, hit with new sexual misconduct allegation 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Reviews of his highly anticipated Philip Roth biography appeared before the book came out, with major stories in magazines and literary publications. Philip Roth’s biographer accused of sexual assault 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “In light of them, we have decided to pause the shipping and promotion of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography,’ pending any further information that may emerge.” Blake Bailey's publisher hits 'pause' on shipping, promotion of book amid allegations 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “I never thought that a biography of Philip Roth was going to please everybody, and I have not been disappointed,” Bailey told The Times in March, in an interview about his book. Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey dropped by agent over 'grooming' allegations 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Norton announced it had taken the rare step of putting a shipment of “Philip Roth” copies on hold and said it would pause promotion of the book. Publisher pauses promotion of Blake Bailey’s best-selling Philip Roth biography over sexual assault claims 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “It’s access biography!” raged Jacques Berlinerblau, a Georgetown professor whose book “The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography” will be published in September. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z “In light of them, we have decided to pause the shipping and promotion of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ pending any further information that may emerge.” Philip Roth’s biographer accused of sexual assault 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Norton is hitting pause on “Philip Roth: The Biography” in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations made against the author by several women who met him when he was their eighth-grade honors English teacher. Blake Bailey's publisher hits 'pause' on shipping, promotion of book amid allegations 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “People tend to love him or hate him. And if you are in the latter category ... then I cannot be hard enough on Philip Roth.” Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey dropped by agent over 'grooming' allegations 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was also born seven weeks after Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Forty-eight passages in Bailey’s “Philip Roth: The Biography” are sourced to “Notes for My Biographer.” Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z He probed what he regarded as the enduring brilliance of Norman Mailer’s New Journalism, the poetry of Robert Lowell and the comic novels of Philip Roth in commentary that he leavened with personal confessions. Morris Dickstein, influential literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z I never thought that a biography of Philip Roth was going to please everybody, and I have not been disappointed. 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Bailey, whose “Philip Roth: The Biography” was published April 6, appears to have contacted Champion on Friday night. Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey dropped by agent over 'grooming' allegations 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Author Philip Roth, who tackled self-perception, sexual freedom, his own Jewish identity and the conflict between modern and traditional morals through novels that he once described as “hypothetical autobiographies,” has died. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Philip Roth, who stopped writing in 2010 and died eight years later at age 85, was not sure if he wanted to be the subject of a biography. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Blake Bailey‘s “Philip Roth,” a volume Roth had imagined in some form for more than 20 years, comes out April 7. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Philip Roth keeps at full tilt, prying into delusions of immortality and fears surrounding the inevitable in his latest novel, ‘Everyman.’ 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Tolkien, George Orwell, Robert Penn Warren, Philip Roth and Lois Lowry, as well as children’s classics and best-selling cookbooks and lifestyle guides. HarperCollins to Buy Houghton Mifflin’s Trade Publishing Unit 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “Philip Roth: A Life” is his most memorable and controversial biography. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In the 1993 novel “Operation Shylock,” a character named Philip Roth travels to Israel to confront a look-alike, named Philip Roth, who peddles Middle East peace plans while pretending to be the real Roth. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In 1969, he came out with the British edition of Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” helping to make the novelist a literary celebrity. Tom Maschler, British publisher instrumental in founding the Booker Prize, dies at 87 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z And if you are in the latter category, which I think Laura decidedly is, then I cannot be hard enough on Philip Roth. 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Charles Lindbergh, in real life someone who also proclaimed “America first”, used his plane as a prop in his quasi-fascist rallies in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America. Donald Trump set to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to supreme court – live 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Blake Bailey has been accused of taking the he said side in “Philip Roth: The Biography,” and it’s true: On a case-by-case basis, the biographer’s thumb often lands on Roth’s side of the scale. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z But the most obvious structural parallel is Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth – another monologue delivered in a consulting room that Volckmer admits to finding hysterically funny, for all its contemporary incorrectness. Katharina Volckmer: 'Germans say they've dealt with their past. But I don’t think you can' 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z In 1991, Philip Roth wrote a weighty, surprisingly tender homage to his father. Six highly gift-worthy memoirs about — and for — dads 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Paul Simon was about to take the stage Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl when my 26-year-old daughter looked up from her phone: “Philip Roth died.” 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z During the 1960s, Mr. Friedman became of the country’s best-known writers and was often seen in the same literary light as his contemporary Philip Roth, who also published satirical explorations of Jewish life. Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, playwright with an edge of ‘black humor,’ dies at 90 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z He talked books with Philip Roth and William Styron, endured the drunken taunts of Norman Mailer, lunched with Mel Brooks and attended a birthday party for “Stir Crazy” star Richard Pryor. ‘Splash,’ ‘Stern’ writer Bruce Jay Friedman dead at 90 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z For 20 years, Benjamin Taylor was a confidant of Philip Roth. Review: Writer reflects on his friendship with Philip Roth 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Several weeks ago, just as the coronavirus was laying siege to my home city of New York, I began watching the HBO adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America.” Philip Roth’s epidemic and ours 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Next week, three years after Roth’s death, comes “Philip Roth: The Biography,” weighing in at a comprehensive 900 pages. 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z On the subject of his vocation, Philip Roth liked to quote Czeslaw Milosz: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” Exploring Family Trauma in “My Name Is Lucy Barton” 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The point is most likely “the ecstasy of sanctimony,” described by Philip Roth in “The Human Stain” as “America’s oldest communal passion, historically perhaps its most treacherous and subversive pleasure….” Calendar feedback Jan. 19: White guilt: Good or bad? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As a lifelong reader will I choose Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”? Philip Roth’s “Goodbye, Columbus”? Wonderful as these were, they were not life-transforming. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “Paco’s Story” was one of five finalists for the National Book Award for fiction, including Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Philip Roth’s “The Counterlife.” Larry Heinemann, novelist who explored ghosts of Vietnam, dies at 75 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z When literary biographer Blake Bailey met with author Philip Roth in 2012 he was asked, “Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth?” 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Deception by Philip Roth A much underrated novel from Roth’s expatriate London years. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z After Philip Roth died, they ran a marathon of movies adapted from his books. How a Band of Seasoned Cinephiles Plans to Save the Movie House 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In “The Western Canon,” published in 1994, Dr. Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet he called Philip Roth, that maestro of transgression, the greatest of contemporary American novelists, and was scathing of the misdeeds and warmongering of President George W Bush. Harold Bloom obituary 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In The Western Canon, published in 1994, Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In a 1984 interview, Philip Roth, a friend, asked O’Brien if there had been enough money in her childhood. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The last book that made me laugh When Philip Roth died I started reading Portnoy’s Complaint again, looking for a quotable line, and couldn’t find one that wasn’t. Clive James: ‘The most overrated books almost all emerged from a single genre – magic realism’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z These days, he’s reading a Brian Greene book on quantum physics and starting “The Dying Animal,” a Philip Roth novel about a narcissistic professor brought to despair by lust and fear of commitment. How should we view Bob Shaye — mogul, director, 'moral horizon' watcher — in a #MeToo world? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Though he was clearly ailing, he managed to put together a terrific one on Philip Roth, alongside David Remnick and two female reporters who knew Roth well. James Atlas never lost his love of all things literary 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “I saw this interview with Philip Roth where he described his process as taking two stones of reality and rubbing them together so they spark the imagination,” he said by way of answering. How Noah Baumbach's 'Marriage Story' became Netflix's biggest Oscar hope yet 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The book strained his relationship with a mutual friend, Philip Roth, about whom Atlas released an audiobook in February. James Atlas, author and editor of biographies, dies at 70 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z She was up there with Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, James Baldwin – writers who were challenging the inflection and the timbre of the American dream. 'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z About 10 years ago, Philip Roth asked his friend Russ Murdock – the longtime caretaker of Roth’s rural Connecticut home and, as he got older, of Roth himself – to carve his headstone. Yogi Berra's baseball bat and a $17,500 typewriter: inside the auction of Philip Roth's estate 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z All this censorship allowed for the flood of successful, previously unpublishable novels, that we saw in the 60s and 70s, such as Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. Are millennials really driving ‘cancel culture’ - or is it their overcautious critics? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The first section considers the relationship between Alice, a books editor in her mid-20s, and Ezra Blazer, a famous, aging novelist based on Philip Roth, whom Halliday dated back in the day. What's L.A. reading? Our habits are as diverse as the city itself 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The early Philip Roth books, may he rest in peace. James Ellroy: ‘I’ve been canonised. And that’s a gas’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It earned the public’s affection, if not the critics’, and it was credited with helping broaden interest in Jewish American novels later that decade by Philip Roth and others. Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z He was not a poet or social rebel, and shared none of the demons that inspired the mad comedy of Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint.” ‘Caine Mutiny,’ ‘Winds of War’ author Herman Wouk has died 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z I try to absent myself by reading a Philip Roth novel on my phone. - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Philip Roth, in writing “Portnoy’s Complaint,” completed a similar move, abandoning the Jamesian habits of “When She Was Good” in favor of unbuttoned fluency. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z One writer that I wish was still here was Philip Roth, though in a way he predicted all this with "The Plot Against America." Q&A: Karen Bender on her short stories that confront hot-button issues 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z I've heard writers like Philip Roth say that his lead characters are smarter than he is, that they understand things he doesn't. Maurice Carlos Ruffin on how his dystopian future novel reflects being black in America today 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He can casually dismiss the work of Philip Roth in one post and express nostalgia for the bygone era of bookish braggadocio in another. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth died in May, at the age of eighty-five. Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Dr. Knuth has gone so far as to argue that some computer programs are, like Elizabeth Bishop’s poems and Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral,” works of literature worthy of a Pulitzer. The Yoda of Silicon Valley 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z PASSAGES: Within eight days last spring, two of the country’s most celebrated writers died, Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. From Trump to #MeToo, publishing made headlines in 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Salinger, say, or Philip Roth, Moore’s personality didn’t emanate from his books. The Woolsey fire destroyed a literary haven, but the stories of Brian Moore's house remain 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Philip Roth tells us why his main character in The Human Stain, Coleman Silk, decides to forsake his identity and pass for – become? – a white Jew. ‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Friends and admirers will gather Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, at the New York Public Library for a tribute to Philip Roth, who died in May. Friends and fellow writers pay tribute at Roth memorial 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth died, in May, at the age of eighty-five. Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Philip Roth said he could never have imagined that “the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the USA, the most debasing of disasters”, would appear in “the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon”. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The late Philip Roth was rightly praised for his humour – David Baddiel said he was funny in the way a standup was funny – but none of the obituaries called him a “comic novelist”. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Aside from screenwriting, Josh worked as a novelist and critic, key to helping launch Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" with a rave in the Sunday New York Times. Film critic Kenneth Turan remembers Josh Greenfeld, a screenwriter who taught him about life 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Because I was away last week, there was no newsletter to share these two terrific tributes to Philip Roth, who died May 22 at age 85, by Seth Greeland and David L. Ulin. Books: Rachel Cusk, the long literary life of the Replacements and more book news 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z A panel of female writers discuss the portrayal of women in the work of Philip Roth. Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z American reality had become so confounding, Philip Roth wrote in a 1961 essay, that it felt like “a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination”. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In 1961 Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary called “Writing American Fiction,” in which he endorsed Benjamin DeMott’s observation that America was then experiencing a “universal descent into unreality.” Donald Trump’s magical fantasy world 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z I first met Philip Roth through a mutual friendship with his fellow novelist Julian Mitchell. ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z A young publishing assistant has an affair with an American literary giant who sounds very much like Philip Roth. Review | The 39 books we’re talking about this summer 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Philip Roth is celebrated for bringing my family’s tiny slice of the world into the American pantheon, widening the literary canon to include American Jews. Opinion | What Philip Roth Didn’t Know About Women Could Fill a Book 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z As tributes pour in to Philip Roth, it is worth looking back to his early career, which was one of the strangest in American letters. Martin Amis on Philip Roth: 'the kind of satirical genius that comes along once in a generation' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z “Sheer playfulness and deadly seriousness are my closest friends,” Philip Roth once said. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Roth wrote best when writing about unquiet maleness, Jews, and Newark — in other words, Philip Roth. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z A book inspired in part by Philip Roth. Scottoline has new publisher, writing book inspired by Roth 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Philip Roth’s works are only curious about Philip Roth. Opinion | What Philip Roth Didn’t Know About Women Could Fill a Book 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The legend of Philip Roth had become so great, it was almost a shock to be reminded that he was, until Tuesday, still a living writer. Philip Roth: explorer of a golden age's dark corners | Jonathan Freedland 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z In Operation Shylock, a fictional real Philip Roth confronted a fictional counterfeit Philip Roth in a vertiginous game about the nature of identity. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Paul Simon was about to take the stage Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl when my 26-year-old daughter looked up from her phone: "Philip Roth died." Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z For two years the school has had a Philip Roth Book Club with 10 to 15 students. Philip Roth’s Newark, the Hometown He Never Really Left 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was the first writer I encountered who reflected my image, or that of my family, back from the page. Philip Roth, a provocateur whose candor seared even as it reflected the American story 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Not if Philip Roth had anything to say about it. Philip Roth was one of America’s greatest novelists 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But he also wrote five books about Philip Roth, who both was and was not a recognisable self-portrait. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z In a hundred years, if there are serious readers interested in the nuances of American life in our time they will be reading Philip Roth. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was more than capable of the kind of formal patterning and closure that preoccupied the work of Henry James, with whom he now stands shoulder-to-shoulder in the American literary firmament. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z RIP: Author Philip Roth, who tackled self-perception, sexual freedom, his own Jewish identity and the conflict between modern and traditional morals through novels that he once described as "hypothetical autobiographies," has died. Essential California: USC's president faces call to resign 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth began his career as an enfant terrible, whose fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, scandalised middle America. Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised middle America 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s strange that I’m sitting here on a holiday in southern Italy and reading — for the 10th time at least — The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth. 'An astonishing force field': Philip Roth, as remembered by authors and friends 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The gala took place as a longtime champion for writers oppressed in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, Philip Roth, was dying in a nearby hospital at age 85. Stephen King among the honorees at PEN America gala 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Looking back at Philip Roth’s long bibliography, I realise I’m a true fan of early- and middle-Roth. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The protagonist of “Operation Shylock” is a character named Philip Roth, who is being impersonated by another character, who has stolen Roth’s identity. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, where many of his books were set. Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised middle America 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “Operation Skylock” featured a middle-aged writer named Philip Roth, haunted by an impersonator in Israel who has a wild plan to lead the Jews back to Europe. Prolific, provocative author Philip Roth, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z His topics were often autobiographical, yet so tantalizingly veiled that “Philip Roth” appeared in several novels. Philip Roth, seminal author of comical and simmering discontents, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z American Pastoral bagged the Pulitzer – at last – for Philip Roth, but it is not, I suspect, his best-loved book with readers. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Author Philip Roth, who tackled self-perception, sexual freedom, his own Jewish identity and the conflict between modern and traditional morals through novels that he once described as "hypothetical autobiographies," has died. Philip Roth dies at 85; novelist both probed and skewered Jewish American culture 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Philip Roth died tonight, surrounded by lifelong friends who loved him dearly. Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author dies aged 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “When all of those books were taken together, you had my story,” he said in the 2013 PBS documentary “Philip Roth: Unmasked.” Philip Roth, seminal author of comical and simmering discontents, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z We had been reading bell hooks, Jamaica Kincaid and along came Philip Roth. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Growing up Pakistani-American, the first time I recognized myself in the world of a novel was when I read Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. Can you be a Muslim if you're an atheist? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z As Philip Roth wrote in his novel “Everyman”, “Old age is a massacre.” Life is too precious to worry about death 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The novelist Philip Roth, who explored America through the contradictions of his own character for more than six decades, died on Tuesday aged 85. Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author dies aged 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s almost impossible to imagine the same reaction happening here if, say, Toni Morrison or Philip Roth voiced a political opinion. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z So, here, Philip Roth, is to a job well done. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z She speaks about her own writing in a lecture on the use of the first person, which highlights the groundbreaking work of Philip Roth with “Portnoy’s Complaint.” Subject matter of Zadie Smith’s ‘Feel Free’ ranges wide 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z David Simon is adapting Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America for television, both the novelist and the creator of The Wire said on Monday. David Simon adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America for TV 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “The reality of the Holocaust surpassed any imagination,” Mr. Appelfeld told novelist and admirer Philip Roth in a 1988 interview, explaining why he had not yet written a memoir about his experiences. Aharon Appelfeld, Holocaust survivor who chronicled its traumas, dies at 85 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He is an American icon who has been influenced by Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Philip Roth and who in turn has influenced Aaron Sorkin and James Gray. The seven rages of David Mamet: genius or symbol of toxic masculinity? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The only writer in the entire canon of very, very high literature – I’m talking should’ve-got-the-Nobel-prize high - who is properly funny, laugh-out-loud funny, Peep Show funny, is Philip Roth. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z He cites the 1961 essay Writing American Fiction in which a youngish Philip Roth sees Richard Nixon on TV as “a satiric literary creation” and admits to feeling a “professional envy”. Jeffrey Eugenides: ‘I’m not trying to compete with the outrageousness of Trump’ 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Simon said: “I’m re-reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, it would seem because of Trump, but actually I’m engaged in some early discussions about trying to do that for a mini-series.” David Simon adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America for TV 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z But to others here, there is also something essentially French about Philip Roth. Philip Roth is France’s newest literary superstar. Why? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Philip Roth's fury this morning must be epic. The 2017 Nobel prize in literature – live 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was a slightly older contemporary of mine. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Previous winners of the honorary medal include Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Robert Caro. Annie Proulx to receive honorary National Book Award 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Taken together, Bram wrote in a tribute, Mr. Merlis’s books “explore American life with the insight and power of the best work of James Baldwin and Philip Roth.” Mark Merlis, novelist who explored gay life in 20th-century America, dies at 67 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But as Freedland points out, Philip Roth was already mourning the difficulties of writing about the world back in the 1960s. Has Donald Trump ruined the dystopian novel? Let's hope not 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The suburbs were out of bounds, but as white families left, some black families moved to the South Ward, which had long been Jewish – home of Philip Roth, among others – and the West Ward. The Newark race riots 50 years on: is the city in danger of repeating the past? 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Fifty six years ago, a young Philip Roth despaired at the apparent inability of his chosen trade to compete with the world around him. How can fiction compete with the drama of Donald Trump’s presidency? 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Philip Roth was the avatar of success in that model. The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z This early review set the tone for what would follow, and for many years Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow were hailed as a kind of unquestioned trinity of the best modern American novelists. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “This is for the political Patton,” he said, as he handed over a first edition of Philip Roth’s Nixon-era satire “Our Gang,” “and this — ” When Father John Misty Met Patton Oswalt 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z For example, it could characterize a lot of contemporary fiction — works from Philip Roth and Bret Easton Ellis, for example — as well as the plays of David Mamet. Gloria Steinem: Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men? 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z These words come near the end of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America, but for some they could have been written yesterday. 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The coarsening and cheapening of political discourse under Trump has drawn the novelist Philip Roth from the silence of his retirement. The new culture war: how Hollywood took on Trump 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z More recent but no less prescient is Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America. Prescient about the president: which writers can help us read Trump? 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Of this year’s two adaptations of Philip Roth books, “Indignation” was the work of art, with Ewan McGregor’s admirable but forgettable “American Pastoral” barely a blip of stir. Best films of 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Liberals looking to feed their sense of alarm have been steered toward Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” and Philip Roth’s “Plot Against America.” Books for the Trump era 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “My contact with Philip Roth was just what I wanted it to be,” Romano says of the notoriously private author. When does a book's author help or hurt the screenwriter's vision? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z For James Schamus’ thoughtful adaptation of Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” he needed someone to help steep the film musically in the tony 1950s. Stevie Wonder, Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams could join the original song race 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z From here the film - based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - takes a violent turn that leaves the illusions that underpin both The Swede's life and that of his wife Dawn in tattered disarray. Ewan McGregor moves behind the camera to direct American Pastoral - BBC News 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z My nominee would have been Philip Roth, a dazzling novelist, who is now retired and, I imagine, sitting at home dying to throw open the door that Dylan has barred shut. For Bob Dylan, the Nobel Prize may seem like a tombstone 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z An Irving Berlin, a George Gershwin , a Stephen Sondheim, a Jerome Kern, a Kurt Weill and a Philip Roth. to name just a few, he never was and never will be. The Meaning of Bob Dylan’s Silence 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The Scottish actor Ewan McGregor makes a respectable if unimaginative directing debut with “American Pastoral,” yet another adaptation of a Philip Roth novel that mistakes a book’s plot and characters for its artistry. ‘American Pastoral’ is a respectable but dull adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Philip Roth is among the most difficult of authors to adapt to the screen. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘American Pastoral’ film lacks the tragedy of Philip Roth’s novel 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z With the release of The Complete Orsinia, Le Guin joined Philip Roth as the only living author published by the Library of America. Ursula K Le Guin: 'I wish we could all live in a big house with unlocked doors' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a former star athlete, married to a former beauty queen, who goes in search of his daughter after she is accused of a violent act. Every movie being released this fall, including 'Sully,' 'Girl on the Train,' 'Magnificent Seven,' 'Loving,' and many more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Written and directed by James Schamus, based on the novel by Philip Roth. Movie review: Light and darkness intertwine in ‘Indignation’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “I was reading Plath’s journals, and in the three months before she passed, she was obsessively reading Philip Roth,” Schamus said. No pressure here: James Schamus’ directorial debut is a Philip Roth novel 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z The retired and revered American novelist Philip Roth probably isn’t surprised that his books are so rarely adapted into successful movies. Adapting Philip Roth novels for film has been hit or miss 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl,” Mr. Clinton began, sounding like a narrator in an old Philip Roth novel or like a confessional letter to Esquire. Bill Clinton Presents His Wife as an Object of Desire 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The story springs, of course, from a book by Philip Roth. A Surprising “Star Trek” Reboot 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z D: Philip Roth says that “discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.” Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He is working on a biography of Philip Roth. Blake Bailey Takes On a Bottle of Clear Creek Distillery Blue Plum Brandy 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Philip Roth once referred to “the indigenous American berserk.” The genie grown monstrous: How Donald Trump, the all-American Frankenstein, devoured the GOP 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The stacks are unintentionally whimsical: There’s Philip Roth next to Terry Southern. In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z I hope the owner hangs it near a bookcase stacked with his peers of American imagination like Saul Bellow, JD Salinger and Philip Roth. Are the most expensive paintings ever worth their prices? A definitive ranking 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z I had dinner with Philip Roth long ago, and he’s very clever, but I wouldn’t be with a man like that for all the tea in China. Erica Jong: 'There are a million ways of making love…' 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He was a household name from the popular soap opera Peyton Place; she was a newcomer with only one major film to her credit, the Philip Roth adaptation Goodbye, Columbus. Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw: 'Fame is brutal for women' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z This autumn season is something more akin to late springtide in the brilliant career of Edna O’Brien, described by her American peer Philip Roth as the greatest living woman writing in English. Edna O’Brien: from Ireland’s cultural outcast to literary darling 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z It is, for one of America’s foremost literary novelists, a modest property, overlooked on three sides by neighbours in a way that, say, Philip Roth’s grand pile in Connecticut is not. Jonathan Franzen interview: ‘There is no way to make myself not male' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z There was a tape my brother made of some Joni Mitchell for my mom, Dylan Thomas talking about Christmas, Philip Roth reading from The Ghost Writer—and the tapes of David. David Lipsky: David Foster Wallace and 'The End of the Tour' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z I want to be my own Philip Roth.” Erica Jong: 'There are a million ways of making love…' 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z I think of Philip Roth, because he’s so prolific, and like, oh, I heard he was not nice to somebody once. A dialogue between Eisenberg and Segel on idols and fame 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z If you are a Jewish American writer of my generation then you will have passed through a door that was made by Saul Bellow, or Cynthia Ozick, or Bernard Malamud, or Philip Roth. EL Doctorow opened a magical new door in American literature 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The Southern writer’s name is among several in a housing development that includes Philip Roth Street and William Styron Square. Misspelled author’s name to be fixed in Va. city street sign 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Australia’s cricketers play in the manner Philip Roth once used to describe writers in the west during the cold war: “Everything goes and nothing matters.” A brief guide to the Ashes, where colonial master and renegade offspring clash 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Of course, no sensible person reads The Dying Animal by Philip Roth only for the sex. Forget EL James, let’s have some real dirty fiction 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Several famous writers were among his fans, including Philip Roth and Joseph Heller, but he never converted critical acclaim into commercial success. American novelist James Salter dies - BBC News 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z But Philip Roth’s point remains the essential one. The Changing American Sex Scandal 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z “I’m not doing a Philip Roth thing,” she says, referring to Roth’s announcement of his retirement from writing. ‘It’s hard for me to self-analyse… I prefer to think “Oh, aren’t I lucky”’ 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Like the man who is metamorphosed into one in Philip Roth’s story The Breast, he was possessed by this body part. Picasso or bust: why Fox and other puritans find his work so shocking 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It's a fascinating glimpse of a lost era of magazine journalism, when editors communicated in terse but rarely urgent memos and a Philip Roth story might be rejected for containing a diaphragm. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z It is no surprise that the work of Philip Roth, so easy to swallow on the page, should prove indigestible on film. “The Humbling” and “Timbuktu” Reviews 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Before I reached him, though, I remembered a remark I’d heard from Philip Roth: “Old age is not a battle, it’s a massacre.” An Elderly Litterbug 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But they died so that Philip Roth and Erica Jong might live. The Birth of Pulp Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Haven’t we been reading about a character called “Philip Roth” for years? Embarrassed by Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Because of this stuffiness, Shawn has closed the magazine's pages to some excellent fiction, among it Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus," which was turned down, in part, because a diaphragm figures in the story. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z She juggles a lot of far-flung references — her Weiner essay discusses Jean Genet, “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Philip Roth’s shrink — and she often confesses to a surprising personal connection to the subject. Book review: ‘Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation,’ by Laura Kipnis 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z His school, Weequahic High, once taught Philip Roth, a giant among America’s novelists. The secret of success 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In the issue’s centerpiece, authors including Philip Roth, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson and Lydia Davis revisit, in candid prose, the circumstances and motivations that shaped some of their greatest works. Inside T's Luxury Issue 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It was an encomium not only for Updike but for all the Great Male Narcissists, “phallocrats” like Norman Mailer, Charles Bukowski and Philip Roth. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country “Listen Up Philip” plays like an adaptation of a lost Philip Roth novel. ‘Listen Up Philip’ movie review In an original essay, Philip Roth considers the experience of rereading his classic novel “Portnoy’s Complaint,” first published 45 years ago, in 1969. Old Books, New Thoughts 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Should long-term favourite Murakami finally get the award, or is it time for Philip Roth, a last-minute addition to the highly tipped list? Who should win the Nobel prize in literature? 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z She cites Philip Roth and Milan Kundera as influences and sees fashion as “a way of taking a position in the world”. The 10 best-dressed people from Paris fashion week SS15 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The Times’ report details how a growing number of prominent authors – including Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and Milan Kundera – are urging the Justice Department to investigate Amazon for violations of antitrust law. A tale of two books: Why is Amazon giving special treatment to Paul Ryan? 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Mantel has a great eye for the dross and dreck of urban and suburban life – the "crapola", as Philip Roth calls it – and it's a joy to follow her around as she observes it. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Cheever returned to New York in a “panic of self-hatred,” Bailey told me over the phone, taking a break from the authorized Philip Roth biography he is currently writing. John Cheever's Ossining House for Sale It is where he and his wife, Mary, who died at 95 in April, entertained other literary giants, including Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, on broad verandas and terraces. Home of Cheever, Chekhov of the Suburbs, Is for Sale 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z No doubt many a novelist's mind is, as Philip Roth – who himself has filled his novels with real people, famous and not – puts it, "a great opportunistic maw". From Scarlett Johansson to Tony Blair to the Queen: the noble tradition of writing real people into novels 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z But with the wig I am a vibrant, if older, shiksa who could toss her moveable hair at any country club longingly visited by a Philip Roth protagonist. Well: Living With Cancer: Wigged Out 2014-02-20T20:02:08Z That the singer Queen Latifah and the writer Philip Roth were born right here in Newark? This Land: Football Fans, Do Not Forget, It’s New Jersey 2014-01-29T04:26:28Z This, after all, is where Ralph Ellison played Bach on the recorder, where Philip Roth and Saul Bellow reposed. John Cheever's Ossining House for Sale “Our results suggest that blacks and Hispanics might be adversely impacted by use of Facebook ratings,” says researcher Philip Roth of Clemson. Facebook Isn't A Good Way To Judge Potential Employees, Say Researchers 2014-01-03T17:05:00Z |
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