Philip Roth describes his admiration for Saul Bellow in Roth's final interview. In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for ...

A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...

During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book. By Marc ...

Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. “Let’s hope the first comes first,” he said in a 2013 interview. Roth, the author ...

Although Philip Roth passed away in 2018 at the age of 85, his career has much to teach us about today’s cancel culture wars. As with contemporary provocateurs such as Dave Chappelle, many wanted to ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. James Marcus interviewed Philip Roth, whose 26th novel, ‘Indignation,’ ...

According to an old joke, the Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto find themselves surrounded. “We are going to die,” the Lone Ranger says, to which Tonto replies: “What do you mean ‘we?’” Though ...

The celebrated novelist Philip Roth set most of his work in his hometown of Newark, NJ. An exploration of Philip Roth’s Newark over 3 days at NJPAC including a tour of landmarks that appear in his ...

An elegant man with a mustache, wearing a black suit, stood stiffly onstage, carrying a plush maroon pillow. On it sat a gleaming white and green medal, strung on a wide red velvet ribbon. But this ...

Philip Roth’s relationships with women were, in a word, complicated (if you need specifics, read his ex’s memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House or another ex’s roman a clef, Asymmetry). But you don’t hear ...

The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public. By ...