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 ...

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 ...

A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...

Author Philip Roth is as synonymous with New Jersey as Bruce Springsteen, diners and "Sopranos" memes. So it makes perfect sense that this weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present ...

These words, written 28 years ago in the pages of “Sabbath’s Theater,” rang with certainty when read aloud by actor Peter Riegert on Friday night at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater; but their recitation, as ...

In Chinua Achebe's novel The Anthills of the Savannah, one of the characters says, "Poets don't give prescriptions. They give headaches." The same is true of novelists, and none more so than Philip ...

Levy, who co-wrote “Sabbath’s Theater” with the actor John Turturro, says it’s a play about love and loss — but it’s “still plenty, plenty dirty.” (JTA) — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s ...

Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book. By Marc ...

The American writer’s last novel becomes surprisingly effective theater in the hands of Tiphaine Raffier at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle attended the “Nemesis” ...

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 ...

The celebration of Philip Roth's career reaches its peak in a new documentary — Philip Roth Unmasked — that will screen on PBS next week as part of the American Masters series. There's no doubt that ...