The art of film adaptation involves purposeful distortion. Even the most faithful adaptations of the most cinematic novels require compression and concision -- which lead, in turn, to restructuring, ...

Add Philip Roth to the growing roster of people unhappy to discover what someone else has written about them online. The author today issued a 2,500-plus-word missive to Wikipedia, informing the ...

What it is: A film, based on the novel by Philip Roth, about an impetuous classics professor at the fictional Athena College who resigns amid accusations of racism and begins an affair with a troubled ...

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 ...

The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public. By ...

Like Woody Allen, Philip Roth seems to be getting crankier with age. But where bitterness and hostility have enervated Allen, they've invigorated Roth, particularly with his 2000 novel The Human Stain ...