NEW YORK (Reuters) - American novelist Philip Roth dislikes e-books and the distracting influences of modern technology, which he feels diminishes the ability to appreciate the beauty and aesthetic ...

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 ...

In his new novel, Philip Roth sets a fictional yet plausible polio outbreak in his New Jersey hometown. Set in 1944, Nemesis describes the fear... Polio Breaks Out In Newark In Roth's 'Nemesis' ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who “probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life.” It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the ...

NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...

Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...

For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel “American Pastoral.” Then he stumbled on a copy of “Shtetl in the Adirondacks: The Story of Gloversville and Its Jews.” The rest is ...

JTA — It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the publication in 2021 of his long-awaited biography of Roth, author Blake Bailey was credibly accused of sexual misconduct. The ...