Philip Roth

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2021
  

  Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer?

  Blake Bailey's new biography of the novelist Philip Roth represented a challenge not least because of Roth's notorious resistance to getting the biographical treatment, but also because of the weakness of the literary biographical tradition in American letters. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3/15/2020
  

  ‘The Plot Against America’ is Truer than even Philip Roth Knew

  by PJ Grisar

  Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  1-25-14
  

  When Nixon asked Haldeman about Philip Roth

  by Jon Wiener

  Richard Nixon didn't talk about writers much... but he did talk of Philip Roth.

• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-26-13
  

  Michael Kimmage: Philip Roth as Phenomenon of the American Spirit

  Michael Kimmage is an associate professor of history at Catholic University. He is the author of  In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy and The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism; he is also the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Journey Through America.