When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been hard at work on a Roth biography already for several years. Roth fans such as myself ...

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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 ...

We listen back to excerpts from Roth's interviews about The Plot Against America and Everyman. Roth died Tuesday at age 85. He spoke with Terry... Fresh Air Remembers Novelist Philip Roth DAVID ...

Philip Roth liked to booby-trap his biographers. In “Exit Ghost” (2007), he calls biography “the lowest of literary rackets.” Yet one version of biography kept drawing him back. “Making fake biography ...

One might as well come out and say it: The death of Philip Roth marks, in its way, the end of a cultural era as definitively as the death of Pablo Picasso did in 1973. One might as well come out and ...

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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The CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center says the late author, the subject of a new biography, enlightened him about what it means to be a father, a son, a writer and an American. Sometime in 2011 or ...

Philip Roth, the prolific, protean and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature, died Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 85. Writer Judith ...