Philip Roth

Television Commentary: Unreeling the Newsreels in “The Plot Against America”

May 28, 2020
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Was this alternate history lesson too much of a downer for viewers weighed down by the burdens of their own unexpected rendezvous with history?

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Book Review: “Here We Are” — Philip Roth’s Boswell

May 25, 2020
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This glimpse into the relationship of two American Jewish writers makes for good reading during the pandemic: an intelligent, gracefully written memoir of friendship.

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Book Commentary: “Portnoy’s Complaint” at 50

August 19, 2019
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Doctor, do you understand what I was up against? My wang was all I really had that I could call my own…

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Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings

June 13, 2018
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In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.

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Book Commentary: Portnoy’s Revenge

May 27, 2018
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There’s something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth’s fiction.

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Fuse Film Review: A Furiously Effective “Indignation”

August 4, 2016
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Films like Indignation bypass body counts and superheroes in order to explore the mysteries and eccentricities of human behavior.

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