Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book. By Marc ...

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 ...

Levy, who co-wrote “Sabbath’s Theater” with the actor John Turturro, says it’s a play about love and loss — but it’s “still plenty, plenty dirty.” (JTA) — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s ...

Hollywood’s polished leaders and legible story arcs never quite imagined the places real-life American politics would go. By Ross Barkan For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The Bookloft will be hosting a live Webcast interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth at the Great Barrington store at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 16, featuring his new ...

As the pieces of the upcoming 'American Pastoral' movie fall into place, Ewan McGregor's casting isn't the only oft-repeated mistake this movie is making. Now seems as good a time as any to remind ...

Bernardsville Library's book group, Saturday Samplers, will meet on Saturday, April 11 at 3:30 pm to discuss "The Human Stain" (2001) by Philip Roth. [The author will not be present.] The novel takes ...

A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...

Early in his 2003 memoir, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Israeli writer Amos Oz kicks Philip Roth in the shins. Oz recounts how his grandparents, before emigrating from Odessa, Ukraine, to ...

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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 ...