Philip Roth

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.

By Miranda Cooper May 29, 2018 3:09 pm

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.

May 23, 2018 12:04 am

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.

February 13, 2018 2:04 pm

Ewan McGregor’s biggest challenge: Philip Roth

By Curt Schleier October 20, 2016 4:04 pm

Bob Dylan and Philip Roth bring it all back home

By Larry Yudelson October 14, 2016 4:22 pm

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

By Charles Munitz July 25, 2016 5:47 pm

7 Israeli expat writers to watch in the new year

By Beth Kissileff September 9, 2015 1:41 pm

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

By Gabe Friedman February 19, 2015 2:55 pm

Hollywood’s inscrutable Philip Roth infatuation

By Anthony Weiss November 13, 2014 11:34 am

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

By Ami Eden September 23, 2014 9:59 am

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