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.
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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.
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