Philip Roth and Amos Oz make list of year’s worst literary sex scenes
| 1:16 PM Nov 19, 2009
If Philip Roth’s The Humbling fails to earn him a National Book Award nomination next year, he can at least console himself with the news that he’s made the shortlist of contenders for a British award honoring bad sex in fiction. Bestowed by the London magazine Literary Review, the awards “draw attention to the crude, ...
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 ...
Gushingly, about ‘The Humbling,’ dildoes, and the future of books
| 4:08 PM Oct 22, 2009
Philip Roth’s 30th novel, The Humbling, was published this week, and it has prompted the author to sit for a rare interview. Tina Brown does the gushing video interrogation for the Daily Beast, asking Roth for his views on the future of the novel (what with Kindle and television, he gives the printed book no ...