Sisyphus at the Selectric
James Wolcott: Undoing Philip Roth, 20 May 2021
Philip Roth: The Biography
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,978 0 224 09817 5 Show More
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,
Philip Roth: A Counterlife
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,978 0 19 984610 8 Show More
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,978 0 525 50524 2 Show More
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,
“... criticism was expended on Roth’s work when it was hot off the grill – by, among others, Alfred Kazin, Marvin Mudrick, Frank Kermode, Leslie A. Fiedler, Stanley Crouch and Vivian Gornick (how she has been vindicated! Her 1976 Village Voice essay on Roth and company, ‘Why Do These Men Hate Women?,’ was a warning siren) – that fresh ... ”