Philip Roth

Philip Roth's Jewish question Philip Roth's Jewish question

In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio.
By Louis Bayard Sep 16, 2008

  • "Elegy" for a topless bombshell

    Penélope Cruz gets art-history naked and Ben Kingsley is diamond-brilliant in an overly pretty film adaptation of Philip Roth's "Dying Animal."
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 8, 2008

  • Phallus doesn't live here anymore

    Philip Roth's aging alter ego returns to New York to confront his unrealizable lust and his fear that "reading/writing people" may be finished.
    By Brendan Bernhard October 4, 2007

  • Rank insubordination

    The New York Times Book Review's list of the best American novels of the past 25 years revives the threadbare "greatness sweepstakes" view of literature.
    By Laura Miller May 22, 2006

  • Roth's historical sin

    In "The Plot Against America," the great novelist imagines a 1940s America devoured by anti-Semitism -- ignoring the brutal anti-black bigotry that actually existed.
    By Stanley Crouch October 11, 2004

  • "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth

    In his most believable novel in years, Philip Roth imagines a 1940s America where Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR and the nation descends into vicious anti-Semitism.
    By Laura Miller September 29, 2004

  • "Passing" and the American dream

    These days we're supposed to think race doesn't matter. But as "The Human Stain" and a raft of recent writing makes clear, we're just as fascinated by its slippery boundaries as ever.
    By Baz Dreisinger November 4, 2003

  • "The Human Stain"

    Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman team up for a decent, sincere big-screen fable -- but the scourging fury of Philip Roth's novel is nowhere in sight.
    By Charles Taylor October 31, 2003

  • Philip Roth: The Zuckerman books

    Over 21 years, eight novels and 2,200 pages, the titan of American writing has published the most ambitious literary series of our time.
    By Ken Gordon March 26, 2002

  • Don DeLillo

    America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives.
    By Jeffrey MacIntyre October 23, 2001

  • What Chandra Levy didn't know

    Today's writers see affairs between younger women and older men as ambiguous transactions that sometimes lead to tragedy.
    By Maria Russo July 23, 2001

  • "The Dying Animal" by Philip Roth

    In the author's new novel, carnal pursuits are all-consuming as a 62-year-old professor beds his 24-year-old student.
    By Charles Taylor May 17, 2001

  • The selfish man

    Philip Roth's latest character gets all hot and bothered over his gorgeous young Cuban lover, but he never loses control -- that's the problem.
    By David Thomson May 4, 2001

  • Philip Roth

    "Portnoy's Complaint"
    By Philip Roth October 5, 2000

  • Life and life only

    At the top of his form, Philip Roth delivers an astounding novel about three issues that make Americans crazy: Race, sex and Monica.
    By Charles Taylor April 24, 2000

  • Smart and sexy

    The author of "Fear of Flying" selects six novels for those who believe that the brain is the most important erogenous zone.
    By Erica Jong August 16, 1999

  • I Married A Communist

    Scott McLemee reviews 'I Married a Communist' by Philip Roth
    By Scott McLemee September 29, 1998

  • twilight of the old goats

    Salon magazine: Mailer, Roth and Bellow refuse to go quietly. By D.T. Max
    By D.T. Max May 16, 1997
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