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Philip Roth

American novelist Philip Roth in 1967. (Bernard Gotfryd via Wikimedia/Library of Congress)
Posted inBooks

New biography: Philip Roth cared about more than sex

by Sue Fishkoff November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

Tackling a biography of Philip Roth, one of the most influential American writers of the past century, takes courage, determination, and as keen a mind as the writer’s own.  With […]

John Turturro stars in "Sabbath's Theater," which he adapted from the Philip Roth novel with the New Yorker writer Ariel Levy. (Photo/JTA-Monique Carboni)
Posted inCulture

How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 7, 2023
a black and white photo of Philip Roth
Posted inOpinion

Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

Jacques Berlinerblau by Jacques Berlinerblau and JTA March 16, 2023
Josh Lambert is the author of "The Literary Mafia."
Posted inBooks

What was the Jewish ‘literary mafia’? A new book explores a common myth of postwar publishing

by Andrew Lapin and JTA July 29, 2022
Stanford professor Steven Zipperstein (left) is working on a biography of Philip Roth (right).
Posted inBooks

‘It deserves to exist’: Stanford prof who knew Philip Roth weighs in on biography controversy

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 7, 2021June 9, 2021
Philip Roth with Allegra the cat, Manhattan, 1959. (Photo/Courtesy W.W. Norton & Company)
Posted inBooks

Highly anticipated Philip Roth biography delivers the goods

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 31, 2021March 31, 2021
Gal Gadot on the cover of Entertainment Weekly for her upcoming sequel "Wonder Woman 1984."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Ethiopian Jew goes to Eurovision; Philip Roth goes to television; Tarantino goes to Israel; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 28, 2020February 28, 2020
From the cover of "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
Posted inBooks

Philip Roth’s prescient ‘Plot Against America’ is focus of event series

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 19, 2019March 20, 2019
Rabbi James Brandt
Posted inLetters

Roth’s ‘Plot’; a great cantor; dear leaders, save East Bay Jewish life!

by J. Readers September 6, 2018September 12, 2018
From the cover of "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
Posted inCulture

Reading ‘The Plot Against America’ across the Bay

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 23, 2018

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