In 1996, actress Claire Bloom wrote an unsparing memoir which bitterly portrayed author Philip Roth, her husband of 17 years, as an egomaniacal misogynist. In response, Roth reached out to a trusted ...
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 ...
It was a scandal right out of a Philip Roth novel: Days after the publication in 2021 of his long-awaited biography of Roth, author Blake Bailey was credibly accused of sexual misconduct. The ...