NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...

During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...

A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...

Roth was the author of dozens of novels including 'Portnoy's Complaint,' 'American Pastoral' and 'Goodbye, Columbus.' By Katie Kilkenny Philip Roth, an influential novelist who won two National Book ...

Author Philip Roth is as synonymous with New Jersey as Bruce Springsteen, diners and "Sopranos" memes. So it makes perfect sense that this weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present ...

Philip Roth, the prolific, protean and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature, died Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 85. Philip Roth, the ...

These words, written 28 years ago in the pages of “Sabbath’s Theater,” rang with certainty when read aloud by actor Peter Riegert on Friday night at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater; but their recitation, as ...

FILE - Author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher in New York on Sept. 8, 2008. Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro, Liev Schreiber and ...

Levy, who co-wrote “Sabbath’s Theater” with the actor John Turturro, says it’s a play about love and loss — but it’s “still plenty, plenty dirty.” (JTA) — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s ...

Author Philip Roth says his latest novel, Exit Ghost, is also his last one about Nathan Zuckerman. The character was 23 when Roth began writing... Author Says New Zuckerman Novel to be the Last Author ...

Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine ...