Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who “probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish ...

Roth’s fiction drew heavily on his own life and literary reputation in ways that blurred imagination and reality.

But it is Olivia, Britton’s wife, to whom the novel is addressed, who takes the leading role and lands the knockout punch ...

Former President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Philip Roth in 2011. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A bestselling biography of late novelist Philip Roth has been yanked by its ...

During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...

Author Philip Roth, who tackled self-perception, sexual freedom, his own Jewish identity and the conflict between modern and traditional morals through novels that he once described as “hypothetical ...

Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing. The sardonic 1971 comedy “Such Good Friends,” directed by Otto ...

“After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets—and kept studying.” ...

Philip Roth reads from his book, American Pastoral (1997). It’s Roth’s elegy for the 20th Century’s promises of prosperity, civic order and domestic bliss. American Masters explores the life and ...

Philip Roth, one of the country's most celebrated writers, has died at 85. Roth was known for work that was funny, often gross, and deeply connected to his Jewish roots. He won numerous awards, and ...

Paul Simon was about to take the stage Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl when my 26-year-old daughter looked up from her phone: “Philip Roth died.” The news stunned me. Roth was 85, but in a recent ...

Philip Roth, whose novel American Pastoral won a Pulitzer in 1998 but who was best-known for the controversial and explicit 1969 Portnoy's Complaint, has died at age 85. Roth's biographer Blake Bailey ...