Jewish author Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize for the body of work in his more than 50-year-long career. The biennial award to be presented in June in London to Roth, 78, was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seminal author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such ...
In this Sept. 8, 2008, file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, in New York. Roth, prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, ...
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LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. writer Philip Roth, one of the world's most revered novelists, confirmed he will retire from writing and public appearances in a final interview with the BBC. Roth, 81, ...
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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 ...
When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer Philip Roth rewrote the history of his country with his extraordinary novel ‘The plot Against America’, by having the legendary ...