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 ...

As the pieces of the upcoming 'American Pastoral' movie fall into place, Ewan McGregor's casting isn't the only oft-repeated mistake this movie is making. Now seems as good a time as any to remind ...

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 ...

Philip Roth wrote millions of words, 29 novels and scores of short stories and essays. My God, exclaims his signature character Alexander Portnoy in the 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint." (Reading) The ...

Philip Roth died Tuesday, May 22, 2018, we listen back to his interviews about his books 'Goodbye Columbus' and 'Portnoy's Complaint,' ‘The Plot Against America,’ and ‘Everyman.’ Roth died at age 85.

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 ...

Novelist Philip Roth poses in March 1993. (AP Photo/Joe Tabbacca) On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on Philip Roth’s 2004 novel "The Plot Against America," and its parallels with the U.S. today. The ...