When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the vividness, energy, and special intensity of literary experience is all too often subdued, and exchanged for a supposedly more sophisticated discussion of its ethical or political significance.  Meer

This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals.  Meer

The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan.  Meer

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.  Meer

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.  Meer

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Meer

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Meer

On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.  Meer

On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, the book explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, restraint and letting go, nausea and appetite, energy and frustration, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.  Meer

Written by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work.  Meer

In een door tropische hitte bevangen Newark woedt een schrikbarende epidemie, die de kinderen van de stad bedreigt met verlamming, invaliditeit en zelfs met de dood.  Meer

In 2026, the Musée National Picasso-Paris will present an exhibition dedicated to Philip Guston, bringing together a group of figurative works made by the artist responding to to Philip Roth's book Our Gang.  Meer