In its recent article on Ariel Levy and John Turturro’s stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s “Sabbath’s Theater,” the New York Times called it the novelist’s “raunchiest book.” Why stop there? Let’s also ...

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 ...

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Mariner Books is giving Philip Roth's complete works a new coat of paint, the publisher announced today. “We are deeply honored to be entrusted with Philip Roth’s extraordinary books, which together ...

The celebrated novelist Philip Roth set most of his work in his hometown of Newark, NJ. An exploration of Philip Roth’s Newark over 3 days at NJPAC including a tour of landmarks that appear in his ...

In 1996, actress Claire Bloom wrote an unsparing memoir which bitterly portrayed author Philip Roth, her husband of 17 years, as an egomaniacal misogynist. In response, Roth reached out to a trusted ...

In “Borges and I,” a classic page-long story by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer presents the reader with a conundrum: How are we to distinguish between Borges, the living, breathing human ...

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 ...

The Atlantic's Joseph O'Neill penned an essay about the novelist Philip Roth for the April issue (please go on and read the whole thing), and included this sentence: "As for the personal, Roth, though ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An elegant man with a mustache, wearing a black suit, stood stiffly onstage, carrying a plush maroon pillow. On it sat a gleaming white and green medal, strung on a wide red velvet ribbon. But this ...