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

NEW YORK — Exit, Philip Roth? Having conceived everything from turning into a breast to a polio epidemic in his native New Jersey, Roth has apparently given his imagination a rest. The 79-year-old ...

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

Seminal author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such ...

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 ...