Tablet staffers share their favorite fiction and non-fiction reads
Unexpected finds at a former Jewish orphanage in Berlin
Philip Roth’s defenders point to his later, more serious works to argue for his place in the canon. In truth, those books make clearer his weaknesses.
Two new books, The Druggist of Auschwitz and Reluctant Accomplice, offer true stories of average citizens’ divergent responses to Nazi rule. They help us examine our own rationalization of genocide.
In Nemesis, Philip Roth conjures Jewish Newark amid a 1944 polio outbreak
After a lifetime of avoiding Philip Roth’s books, a reader decides to see what all the fuss is about
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