In his essay, “Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community,” Wendell Berry writes that the “voyeur cannot crack the shell”; to behold copulating bodies is not to capture sexual intimacy, the mysterious union of souls.
In the new film, Elegy, George...
Rated: PG-13 (some strong language, sexual material, some drinking and smoking);
This slick, audience-pleasing documentary following the senior class at an Indiana high school uses techniques perfected by MTV reality shows such as The Hills. As...
No publishing season that includes Philip Roth, Bob Woodward, Stephen King, Wally Lamb and Toni Morrison can be entirely without interest. Besides such literary heavyweights, the fall books will include a profusion of interesting nonfiction and...
Niners, Raiders, Stanford and Cal fans, respectively, you should hope for those numbers.
Roberto Bolańo's swan song, "2666," won't have much competition as the most eagerly anticipated novel this fall. The late prize-winning Spanish author (by way...
Philip French: Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz play teacher-student lovers in Elegy, a rare and sympathetic adaptation of a Philip...
To the Editor:
Philip Roth's essay [“Writing American Fiction,” March] forced me to recall another by Philip Rahv, written some twenty years ago. Rahv suggested that [unlike the American novelist] the European writer . ....
Background
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997).
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