Philip roth

He was very sexual, deeply selfish, and content to be just that. It made for great writing, but at what cost?

Elliott Erwitt Novelist Philip Roth, Connecticut 1990 “I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have...

Daniel Dyer: I first read Roth (1933–2018) back in the late 1960s. I’d already heard of him (Goodbye, Columbus—story and movie, 1969), but had not read him. But then I saw a provocative paperback cover “speaking” to me … can’t remember where. Some display. Some

My friend Reginald-Jerome de Mans recently wrote a review on Adolf Loos’ short volume of collected essays, titled Why a Man Should be Well-Dressed. Loos was an influential European architect at the turn of the 20th century, whose main work foreshadowed modernism in architecture and design. In his spare time, he opined on men’s [...]Read More...

A list of books recommended by American novelist Philip Roth, including work by Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, and Leo Tolstoy.

Philip Roth

Philip Roth, whose sexually scandalous comic novel "Portnoy's Complaint" brought him literary celebrity after its publication in 1969 and who was eventually hailed as one of America's greatest living authors...

Image by Thierry Ehrmann, via Flickr Commons Writing in The New York Times this weekend, author Lisa Scottoline remembers her days at the University of Pennsylvania, back during the 1970s, when she took seminars with then-visiting professor, Philip Roth.