Upstaged
In ‘The Humbling,’ Philip Roth imagines an actor grappling with the waning of his gifts
| 7:00 AM Nov 3, 2009
In the mid-1990s, Philip Roth entered the triumphant late phase of his long career, producing a series of big historical novels—American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain. These books, with their detailed recreation of the American past and their blend of social observation with Rothian obsession—about sex, death, and the Jews—showed that he ...
