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May 15, 2000 · Photograph by Philip Montgomery. The summer before last, Philip Roth left his house in rural Connecticut to make one of his periodic raids on Babylon. He visited a few friends, got his hair cut ...
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The New Yorker, May 26, 1997 P. 29. Talk story about Seymour...
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American Pastoral. By Richard Brody. October 13, 2016. In...
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Tom Perrotta. Tony Luong for The New York Times. Philip Roth’s final novel, “ Nemesis ,” is one of his somber masterpieces — smaller, more austere novels, composed in a minor key — a ...
Mar 22, 2021 · “American Pastoral” (1997) was a book about the way history, in this case, the chaos of the sixties and the Vietnam War, descends without notice on an upstanding citizen of a small New Jersey ...
Nov 19, 2009 · American Pastoral. Published in 1935 in the middle of the Depression, William Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral casts a hard modern light on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poems about shepherds and shepherdesses with classical names like Corydon and Phyllida. Pastoral, Empson wrote, was a “puzzling form” and a “queer business” in ...
May 12, 1997 · One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. Share your opinion of this book. Roth's elegiac and affecting new novel, his 18th, displays a striking reversal of form—and content—from his most recent critical success, the Portnoyan Sabbath's Theater (1995). Its narrator, however, is a familiar Rothian figure ...
