Philip Roth

If Only Philip Roth Had Said: “Damn Right America, I’m Your Jewish Writer and Proud of It!”

Joyless exuberance.

Ruth R. Wisse
June 26 2018 12:01AM

Goodbye, Philip Roth

The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.

Norman Podhoretz
May 24 2018 12:01AM

Philip Roth’s Newark and Its Jews

A once-bustling immigrant city.

Steven Malanga
June 13 2017 12:01AM

Jonathan Safran Foer: Not the Great American Jewish Novelist

If kitsch has a “fairy-tale glow,” then Here I Am is positively radiant.

Alexander Nazaryan
Sept. 6 2016 12:01AM

The Real American Jewish Novel

More than Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, James Salter (né Horowitz) captures the situation of assimilated American Jews—by never writing from a Jewish perspective.

Rich Cohen
Oct. 1 2013 12:00AM