Topic: Philip Roth
This month something happened to me that had never happened before. Absolutely unprecedented. "Infinitely" is one of our most abused adverbs ...
Even in New York Times headlines, they were known as "Izzy and Moe." Their very presence could make bartenders faint. They possessed a keen sense...
What We Talk about When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£12.99, 224 pages In “The Gilgul of Park Avenue”...
In August 2010, the literary corner of the Internet seized in crisis. Editors wrote pained confessions; anonymous commenters called established...
In an article about the good deeds of E.D. Hirsch, the recently deceased American cultural literacy superstar Christopher Hitchens dropped alarming...
Handout. . This year's International Festival of Authors, which takes place between October 19 and 30 in Toronto, features nearly 200 participants...
This year's International Festival of Authors, which takes place between October 19 and 30 in Toronto, features nearly 200 participants from 20...
Photo by Melissa Forman/Handout. . This year's International Festival of Authors, which takes place between October 19 and 30 in Toronto, features...
When the young Philip Roth warned his parents to brace for a media assault with the release of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969, his mother broke down in tears: she thought he was suffering from delusions of grandeur.Four decades after the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Feminist author and publisher Carmen Callil resigned from the International Man Booker Prize judging panel in protest after it was awarded to U.S. author Philip Roth.Callil said in the British media that Roth -- who is renowned for his ...
