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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Winning this year's Man Booker International Prize came as a mixed blessing for Philip Roth, said Julie Bosman in The New York Times. Roth, 78, won $100,000 along with the citation, and the British ...

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 ...

Gloria Naylor speaks about the American dream and Nella Larsen's "Passing." ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Philip Roth was an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Ceremony. The year with the highest average number of views per program ...