Philip roth

David Remnick on the novelist's streamlined life and turbulent work.

One of America’s greatest novelists, Philip Roth died this week, aged 85. From 1959’s Goodbye, Columbus to 2010’s Nemesis, 14 acclaimed writers including William Boyd, David Baddiel, Linda Grant and Joyce Carol Oates pick their favourite work

Elliott Erwitt Novelist Philip Roth, Connecticut 1990 “I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as...

Daniel Dyer: I first read Roth (1933–2018) back in the late 1960s. I’d already heard of him (Goodbye, Columbus—story and movie, 1969), but had not read him. But then I saw a provocative paperback cover “speaking” to me … can’t remember where. Some display. Some

Philip Roth

Philip Roth turns eighty-one today. You must be wondering: How can you, little old you, partake of such an historic occasion? Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You could masturbate into a piece of raw liver, à la Alexander Portnoy; you could masturbate on your mistress’s grave, like Mickey Sabbath; or you could …

New Yorker writers and contributors, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, James Wood, Louise Erdrich, Nicole Krauss, Katy Waldman, Alexandra Schwartz, Gary Shteyngart, Louise Erdrich, and Jonathan Lethem, reflect on the work and legacy of Philip Roth, who died Tuesday, at the age of eighty-five.

My friend Reginald-Jerome de Mans recently wrote a review on Adolf Loos’ short volume of collected essays, titled Why a Man Should be Well-Dressed. Loos was an influential European architect at the turn of the 20th century, whose main work foreshadowed modernism in architecture and design. In his spare time, he opined on men’s [...]Read More...