American Pastoral

The Philip Roth Reader: When He Was Good He Was Very, Very Good -- and Something of a Feminist

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Karen Stabiner

Required reading: When She Was Good, which can be reduced, for those who prefer sound bites, to the story of a girl who had no choice.

Philip Roth's "The Humbling": Axler's Theater

The New York Review of Books | Elaine Blair | Posted 05.25.2011

Axler's Theater Elaine Blair The New York Review of Books "The Humbling" by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp., $22.00 One of the ...

Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Have I Got a Girl for You!

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

David Finkle

Roth and Allen are producing works it's difficult not to describe as clichés. What could be more commonplace than men obsessed with proving that male elders remain attractive to their female juniors?