Philip Roth
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Marred by controversy, the Philip Roth biography is a spectacular own goal
Allegations of sexual assault and impropriety against Blake Bailey make it hard to read his life of Philip Roth in the way biographer and subject may have originally intended.
- James Ley
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Their human stains: Why I’ll keep reading Philip Roth but perhaps not his biographer accused of rape
Let’s put the tedious culture wars aside. There are much more interesting questions about who we’ll read - and how we’ll read them.
- Sean Kelly
Philip Roth biography will still be published in Australia despite controversy
Publishers are in a dilemma when authors are not what they seem or staff find them objectionable.
- Jason Steger
Publisher halts shipping of new Philip Roth biography
The author Blake Bailey faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
- Hillel Italie
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- Literature
Yes Philip Roth was morally flawed, but his work was also liberating
Portnoy’s Complaint spoke to me in a way other Jewish novels did not because it dared to ventilate the pathologies tormenting the postwar Jewish psyche.
- Julie Szego
What happens when one of the world’s most debated authors meets one of its most celebrated biographers?
The life of Philip Roth was a story. So was the writing of his biography.
- Hillel Italie
Should we turn our backs on the work of Philip Roth?
A new biography of the American novelist reveals what his readers already knew – he was obsessed with sex.
- Jason Steger
Like children’s play, dystopian novels help us understand life's reality
Philip Roth’s novel is a warning against political zealotry and populism and the threat they pose to democratic ideals.
- Anne Hyland
The birth of a different, but uncomfortably familiar, America by Wire writer
The Wire's David Simon is bringing The Plot Against America, an "alternative history" of modern America, to the screen.
- Michael Idato
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