The First Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
by Philip Roth, Cape, 256pp, £16.99Philip Roth's last novel, Exit Ghost, was "a disappointingly flaccid narrative about the frustrations of age", said Peter Kemp in the Sunday Telegraph. In…
The Plank (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
TNR Editor Frank Foer introduces the new issue and discusses some choice articles on Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, and Philip Roth. --Ben Eisler
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Bedside book pile getting dangerously tipsy? These bibliocozy bins are a fall-worthy wrangle for Edgar Sawtelle, Philip Roth, Mr. Sedaris and a few others that shall remain anonymous. Here in black, a
The Plank (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The End Of An Error: How The Recession Will Remake American Politics , By Jonathan Chait The Fatal Handjob: Philip Roth Goes On A Panty Raid , By James Wolcott Bruuuuuce! The Bush Years Have Made Obama's Newest Surrogate--And The Head Of The Mighty E Street Band--An Angrier Musician , By Reverend Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz How Her Resentment Of Elites Defines Sarah Palin's Career. PLUS, A TNR EXCLUSIVE...
Workbench (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Philip Roth's Indignation describes the short unhappy life of Marcus Messner, a college student in the early '50s who is paranoid about getting kicked out of school and drafted to serve in the Korean War, in spite of the fact that his grades are so strong he could become valedictorian. Messner, the dutiful son of a kosher butcher in Newark, transfers from a local school to Winesburg College in Ohio,...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Joy is out of town, so I have to read the NYT for myself. Well, I kind of scanned it. The book section is pretty dry this week. There's the sad news that neither John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo or Joyce Carol Oates will be getting the Nobel Prize. Also, a new book on the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings relationship. And by the way, OJ is going to jail. (The OJ story wasn't in the book section,...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
BY PHILIP ROTH Jonathan Cape, 236pp, £16.99
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
On today's WNYC broadcast of the Leonard Lopate Show , Philip Roth discussed his new novel Indignation , Communist national anthems (!?!)*, desultory oral sex, Newark (of course), and his work in progress, The Humbling . A podcast of the program can be found here . And along the way, he revealed that the protagonist of Indignation , Marcus "Markie" Messner, was relating his tale not from the hereafter...
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Horace Engdahl, snobb Nobel prize judge slams American literature US literary world reacted to an extraordinary tirade against American writing by Horace Engdahl Sorry, John Updike. Don’t get your hopes up, Joyce Carol Oates. And Philip Roth, what were you thinking? It’s been 15 long years since an American author was last honoured with a Nobel prize for [...]
The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Why Philip Roth won’t be winning the Nobel Prize for Literature anytime soon…. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing. Counters the [...]
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Perennial favourites, from American novelist Philip Roth to Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, top the list of hopefuls for this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. British betting agency Ladbrokes gives Italian scholar and journalist Claudio Magris the edge with 3-1 odds, followed by Israel’s Amos Oz and American author Joyce Carol Oates. Bottom of the Ladbrokes list with [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
As last week's Stranger sets in the west, I'd like to call your attention to Sean Nelson 's lovely books lead, about Philip Roth. Nelson is one of the best readers of Roth I've ever met; he's got an almost-instinctual understanding of how the man's books work. Here's a sentence: One of the perils of being a close Roth reader is the often-irresistible assumption that he spends his life conjuring up...
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I've long thought that Philip Roth was more than deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Certainly, he doesn't need the Nobel Prize to validate his career to me, himself, or anybody else; I just thought it would be nice. My belief in this only increased when I read some of the works of some recent Nobel winners, whose work was OK, but was really nothing "amazing" or "revolutionary" (Elfreide Jelinek,...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Indignation, Philip Roth’s 29th book, is about the sophomore year of its narrator, Marcus Messner, who attends college in 1951, a time when the Korean War hangs in the background, waiting to devour America’s youth. Marcus is a brilliant student, the first of his family to enter university, but he has recently suffered unrest. He spent his freshman year at college in his native Newark, which enabled...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
“My fiction is about people in trouble,” Philip Roth told an interviewer after Goodbye Columbus received the National Book Award in 1960.[2] Some of the characters in his novels and stories are in trouble because of their own flaws and...
