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 ...

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 ...

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