Published: 25 March 2021
Last updated: 5 March 2024
Philip Roth’s revenge fantasy (New Republic)
The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores; it has badly backfired
The relentless Philip Roth (The Atlantic)
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent
The secrets Philip Roth didn’t keep (New Yorker)
Roth revealed himself to his biographer as he once revealed himself on the page, reckoning with both the pure and the perverse
Photo: Philip Roth (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
