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 ...
Gloria Naylor speaks about the American dream and Nella Larsen's "Passing." ...
NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...
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 ...
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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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 ...