Philip Roth

Lorna Bradbury delves into the best of a notably fine year for fiction, including Hilary Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall, Philip Roth's latest, The Humbling; Sebastian Faulks, Thomas Pynchon, Sarah Waters and A S Byatt also feature. In...

In this article: Chatto & Windus, J. M. Coetzee, Virago, Thomas Pynchon, Roberto Bolano, and A S Byatt

Originally published Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM Philip Roth's 'The Humbling': an aging actor quits the stage In Philip Roth's new novel, "The Humbling," an aging actor seeks redemption through an affair with a younger woman.

In this article: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Sophocles

...his 72-year-old alter-ego "JC" becoming entangled with his 29-year-old secretary. But the great specialist in this field is Philip Roth. In The Human Stain, 71-year-old Coleman Silk furiously has it away with a 34-year-old janitor. In The...

In this article: Suicide, Viagra, Surgery, JM Coetzee, and Dying Animal

London, Nov 19 : Acclaimed American novelist Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Bad Sex Award, alongside fellow-literary luminaries Amos Oz and Paul Theroux. The Pulitzer Prize winner was shortlisted for the Literary Review's Bad...

In this article: Bad Sex Award, Literary Review, Paul Theroux, Amos Oz, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon

Stage FrightHow to read Philip Roth's quartet on aging. By Judith ShulevitzUpdated Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, at 6:54 AM ET Not long ago, Philip Roth gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal, one of several in various publications that...

In this article: Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs, Exit Ghost, Indignation, Everyman, Judith Shulevitz, and Stage fright

...the talent it rested on is abruptly removed? It's a risky subject for a novelist to take on, but Philip Roth's late career might seem to protect him against any suggestion that the disaster visited on Simon Axler, his actor protagonist,...

In this article: Suicide, Nobel Prize, Hormone, and Sabbath's Theater

"A sinister cabal of superior writers." Philip Roth continues his recent practice of delivering a new short novel every year. The tone of these works has been dark and foreboding, and they seem to be getting more so with each book. Roth,...

In this article: Indignation, Suicide, Ted Gioia, Goodbye, Columbus, Everyman, and Portnoy's Complaint

...the notion that he is hamming his way through his life crisis. Rather than being the central player in his own drama, Axler is more a caricature in his own melodrama. While Philip Roth can never write badly, he can write better than this.

In this article: The Human Stain and Suicide

Book World: Review of "The Humbling" by Philip Roth When the aging heroes of Philip Roth's late fiction succumb to despair, they seek redemption and renewal not through work, therapy, charity, fellowship or family but through an affair with...

In this article: Sophocles

...Annie Hall, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Sinatra, I Married a Communist, John Millington Synge, Lolita, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Philip Roth, Soon-Yi Previn, The Dying Animal, The Godfather Parts I And II, The Human Stain, The Humbling, The...

In this article: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Whatever Works, Lolita, Frank Sinatra, The Human Stain, Manhattan, and Soon-Yi Previn