The Human Stain

...his main characters, Roth has skewered Jewish-American morals and mores. In two brilliant novels - American Pastoral (1997) and The Human Stain (2000) - he deconstructed the deconstruction of "The American Dream" and the rise of identity...

In this article: Suicide, Back pain, Surgery, Cornell University, John Keats, and Pygmalion

...a tendency to protect the original - perhaps fearing the disapproval of their literary hero. A great modern novel, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, was reduced to a ghastly movie because the screenwriter and director maintained a character (the...

In this article: Money, Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, Michael Winterbottom, Philip Roth, Kirk Douglas, and Tristram Shandy

...Roth season. Almost every year, at about this time, a new book appears. Roth may be 76 but this is nevertheless his sixth novel since The Human Stain in 2000, with a seventh, Nemesis, already written and due for publication next year. The...

In this article: Philip Roth and Suicide

...as he only learned about Broyard being black from a New Yorker article published months after he started writing the novel. The Human Stain was a national bestseller and was made into a film in 2003 starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole...

In this article: Philip Roth, Nathan Zuckerman, New England, Monica Lewinsky, I Married a Communist, and Salon.com

...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 Playboy Of The Western World, Vladimir Nabokov, Whatever Works, Woody Allen,...

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

Tina Brown: The last 12 years, we've seen the most incredible creative surge from you-American Pastoral, Plot Against America, The Human Stain. And now you've written your 30th novel, The Humbling. Why such an incredible creative surge...

In this article: Philip Roth, Anxiety, The Huffington Post, and Plot Against America

...so. " After that came the run of books that are thought of now as late, great Roth: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain - the American trilogy, as it's sometimes called. "That was all pretty much a result of...

In this article: Philip Roth, Nathan Zuckerman, William Faulkner, Surgery, Indignation, Everyman, Newark, New Jersey, William Styron, and Claire Bloom

...of Mr. Roth's intelligence . . . the story fails to cohere . . . At its best - which also tends to be at its quietest - The Human Stain allows you both to care about its characters and to think about the larger issues that their...

In this article: The Human Stain, Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth, Robert Benton, and San Francisco Chronicle

...and Democratic parties. • Philip Roth Newark (1933 - ) Pulitzer-prize winning novelist was raised in Newark, and went on to become one of the most celebrated living American writers. Works include "American Pastoral" and "The Human Stain."

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...Roth. Much is said about the rage of Roth's late phase; but even when a book is ostensibly taking on social or political issues, as in The Human Stain, we discover soon enough that what the author is really pissed off about are personal, even...

In this article: Thomas Pynchon, Ronald Reagan, Philip Roth, Vineland, California, Stanley Kubrick, The Crying of Lot 49, Robert Altman, and White House