Philip Roth

Ideas

Philip Roth’s greatest creation was a character named Philip Roth

A typical Roth hero was alienated from his Jewishness because of his Americanness and alienated from his Americanness by his Jewishness, writes a fellow at the Yiddish Book Center.

Philip Roth, enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life, is dead at 85

In his books, Roth poked fun at the wrath he incurred from some in the Jewish community.

7 works of (mostly) serious fiction set at Jewish sleepaway camp

Philip Roth, Paul Auster and Herman Wouk all drew on their memories of Jewish camp.

Culture

Ewan McGregor’s biggest challenge: Philip Roth

Ideas

Bob Dylan and Philip Roth bring it all back home

Culture

‘Indignation’ brings Philip Roth’s novel about anti-Semitism to the big screen

Culture

7 Israeli expat writers to watch in the new year

Culture

Ewan McGregor to direct adaptation of Philip Roth’s ‘American Pastoral’

Culture

Hollywood’s inscrutable Philip Roth infatuation

Culture

Why ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ holds up 50 years later

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