Philip Roth’s standing on the literary scene is undisputed. The recipient of innumerable literary awards, the Jewish American author has reached past the precincts of his Newark’s Weequahic neighborhood to…

A study of one of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. This book offers a view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly…

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, Literary Hub, The Times (UK), Financial Times, and more. The renowned biographer’s definitive portrait…

A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the…

Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought. With its chronology and…

This book offers a combined historical and aesthetic analysis of five novels from Philip Roth’s later career. It reads these works in the context of political, cultural, and literary developments…

Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. This book assembles a group of Roth scholars and critics who focus…