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Goodbye Columbus

The Philip Roth Reader: Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Misogyny, Short Stories, Judaism, Politically Correct, Coen Brothers, Goodbye Columbus, Roth Five Short Stories, The Philip Roth Reader, A Serious Man, Defenders of the Faith, Political Incorrectness, Jewish, The Humbling, Reading, Philip Roth, Books News
Karen Stabiner

I'll endure a dollop of political incorrectness for the sake of an insanely smart story; in this post-feminist world, I'm just that confident.

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The Philip Roth Reader: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Suburbs, American Fiction, The Breast, Goodbye Columbus, The Philip Roth Reader, Jewish, Philip Roth, Bestsellers, The Humbling, Books News
Karen Stabiner

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year in college I got a postcard from a boy in my sociology class. It read something like this: "Please, read Goodbye, Columbus right now."

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Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Theater, Fiction, Aging, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach, The Humbling, Goodbye Columbus, Simon Axler, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Roth is 76 now. He's outlived all of his rivals. He's our most prominent novelist. And over 30 books, he's learned how to disturb us -- and keep us reading.

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Student-Teacher Relationship, Elementary School, Goodbye Columbus, Bernard Malamud, Test Scores, Education, Merit Pay, Public School, High School, Middle School, I.B. Singer, Teachers, Catcher in the Rye, Philip Roth, Living News
Dennis Danziger

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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