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 ...

Can America's fragile experiment withstand the political antisemitism Hannah Arendt saw as a warning sign of democratic ...

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

In 1996, actress Claire Bloom wrote an unsparing memoir which bitterly portrayed author Philip Roth, her husband of 17 years, as an egomaniacal misogynist. In response, Roth reached out to a trusted ...

In “Borges and I,” a classic page-long story by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer presents the reader with a conundrum: How are we to distinguish between Borges, the living, breathing human ...

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 ...

Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine ...

It really wasn’t about the sex, though that was funny. No, what most blew my mind reading Portnoy’s Complaint—scrunched in the back seat of a VW bug, yelling at my friends, "You’ve got to read ...

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 ...