Joel and Ethan Coen’s complex, mysterious, darkly comic ‘A Serious Man’ Oct 9, 2009
Are the Coens being pilloried for visualizing what writers like Philip Roth have put into words. I would argue that there s a precision of detail to the movie s suburban grotesques that is almost awe-inspiring and is, in fact, something very close to love - the way a drooping eyelid, a pendulous earlobe, a pair of cat-eye glasses can be seen by a child mesmerized by a fallen world. (Boston Globe)
Chronicler of the dispossessed gets Nobel prize Oct 9, 2009
Some had thought an American might finally win the award, with Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates frequently mentioned, especially after the backlash caused when the head of the Nobel jury last year disparaged American literature. Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can t get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world. (Boston Globe)
Nobel guessing game at fever pitch Oct 5, 2009
Other writers who regularly pop up in the Nobel speculation are Canadian author Margaret Atwood, US novelists Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, and Algerian French-language writer Assia Djebar. For the science prizes -- medicine, physics, chemistry and economics, to be announced October 5, 6, 7 and 12 respectively -- American researchers have dominated the list of winners in the post-war period. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Nobel Glory Awaits Handful of Top Scientists Oct 3, 2009
Other names mentioned in the literature buzz this year include Israeli writer Amos Oz, American writers Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth and Syrian poet Adonis. The prize selections often result in allegations of political bias. (Newsmax)
Provocative Serious Man asks big questions Sep 30, 2009
If Philip Roth and Franz Kafka sat down to write an adaptation of the Book of Job, the result might be something like A Serious Man, the thought-provoking new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. Viewers are advised to go out for coffee afterward to discuss just what happened and why and what it all means. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Literature: A reader’s feast, but why? Sep 23, 2009
It s hardly a surprise that authors as prolific as Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth are on that list. But so too are Alice Munro, William Trevor, Margaret Atwood, and Anne Tyler, to say nothing of notables like Jonathan Lethem and Lorrie Moore. (Boston Globe)
Hilton Als: Daniel Goldfarb on a postwar revenge plot. Sep 21, 2009
In his other work, he occasionally manages to live up to his enthusiasm for such writers as Philip Roth and Woody Allen creators who know a thing or two about letting the imagination speak for itself. In his 1999 comedy, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, a Jewish Hollywood producer named Samuel Baum (based on Samuel Goldwyn) hires a Gentile writer named Garfield Hampson, Jr. (based on Ring Lardner, Jr.), to write a movie about the Jewish experience, in 1946. (New Yorker)
Brownstone Noir Sep 19, 2009
Nor does Bored to Death attempt Philip Roth's tactic of using "Philip Roth" as a vehicle for weaving between the lanes of art and life. And despite being an homage to detective fiction, the HBO show does not traffic in the sort of infinite regress, in which Paul Auster and "Paul Auster" conspire to corkscrew with your head. (Slate)
Fall feast for fiction lovers Sep 13, 2009
Alice Munro, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Roth, and the late Kurt Vonnegut have new titles coming soon, too. Thomas Pynchon, Pat Conroy, and E.L. Doctorow have all published recently. (Boston Globe)
1969: A year of revolution, revelation Sep 7, 2009
Philip Roth wrote Portnoy s Complaint, Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five, John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant s Woman and the most astonishing thing in retrospect about those books is that they were all bestsellers. So was Mario Puzo s The Godfather. (The Palm Beach Post)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The author's 30th novel (a short one) concerns an aging stage actor. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New Fall Books Penned by Prizewinners Aug 28, 2009
Novels are coming from Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and perennial Nobel candidate Philip Roth. "I've had both Philip Roth and Orhan Pamuk described as possible sleepers, which gives you an idea of what the fall is like when those people are sleepers," Tom Nissley, senior books editor at Amazon. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
Nearly 200 volumes collecting the works of Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and other writers have been published to date. Dr. Poirier joined the project in its planning stages in 1977 and served on its board of directors until 2006, when he stepped down as chairman. (Boston Globe)
Splash around: Great kids products for water play Aug 18, 2009
The inaugural list is composed of 34 works by 10 authors, including one Nobel Prize winner and three Pulitzer Prize winners, with forthcoming performances of books by Philip Roth, Lawrence Durrell, Richard Yates and many others. The Audible Modern Vanguard collection will be presented online at audible. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Another Great Short Story About a Cowardly Adulterer Jul 27, 2009
These envoys from what Philip Roth once called the indigenous American berserk, however rich their symbolic charge, have become the deus ex machina of our time. "Travis, B." is the best and most haunting story in the book largely because it has no ominous premise, no scary chance encounters. (Slate)
A Jewish Film Festival sampler Jul 19, 2009
Graduates include Philip Roth, Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe played the cop in "American Gangster"), Michael Lerner (Tikkun) and former Warriors coach Al Attles. But the school is now in an area of urban decay, and Principal Ron Stone has put together a program to help the inner-city youths make something of themselves. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
FDR's Lessons For Obama Jun 26, 2009
But taken together, those measures laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth and broadly shared prosperity in the years after World War II an era that the novelist Philip Roth once aptly described as "the greatest moment of collective inebriation in American history.". A Postwar Roosevelt Boom Roosevelt's innovations dramatically changed the character of American society. (Time.com)
Still going strong Jun 22, 2009
Inside, the 86-year-old author, considered the best living author alongside Philip Roth by literary critics including Harold Bloom, slowly comes down the steps aided by his wife, in a rare interview granted to a British publication. Few doubt his literary genius, but Saramago is even more famous for his fierce Leftist views - he recently took on the fight against Italy's rightist leader, Silvio Berlusconi, whom he calls "vomit". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Thousands of Broadways,' 'Perforated Heart,' 'Blue Hour' reviewed May 31, 2009
Richard is allegedly a serious novelist made wealthy and famous by Hollywood adaptations of his work, a proposition that is never fully credible no matter how often author-actor Eric Bogosian invokes Philip Roth. All take and no give, Richard has perfected the relationship-shattering technique of turning his life - and the lives of those who are involved with him - into the literature of self-exposure. (Boston Globe)
Weeks from retirement, library director shares her memories May 29, 2009
Those are largely the American writers like Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and John Updike and I haven t really gone on to the next generation, because I haven t really had time. Frankly, I also think some of the mystery writers deserve more credit than they re given. (Concord Journal, MA)
What I Do: Dan Weiss, Dog Eared Books May 26, 2009
He was a contemporary of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, but he died at 36 of an aneurysm. It reads like a Wes Anderson movie but without the affectations because it was actually written in the '50s. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A Good Woman Found May 25, 2009
(On the other hand, also represented in this American pantheon are nonentities like Dawn Powell and James Agee, as well as the atrocious Philip Roth. The attention perhaps reflects her status during the 1980s and 90s as the center of a literary cottage industry. (The American Conservative)
Rush Limbaugh's race to the bottom May 21, 2009
Rush's stream of caboose comments reads like fiction, as if he were a character from But as Limbaugh himself says, "We don't make anything up here, folks. We don't have to. Philip Roth, the great novelist -- he says, 'I'm going to stop writing novels. I can't make up anything more weird than real life.'". About the writer. (Salon)
Hilton Als: “Merchant of Venice,” at BAM. May 4, 2009
Fifty years of Philip Roth, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. 00004000. (New Yorker)
Novelist Lisa Scottoline Apr 13, 2009
You studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that. (Time.com)
| Sandra Hall's review Apr 9, 2009
Ben Kingsley shines in Philip Roth's sordid scenario of love and jealousy ... Kepesh is the creation of Philip Roth, who has devoted a trilogy to him ... Drama Yet to be classified 4 stars Isabel Coixet Nicholas Meyer from the novel The Dying Animal, by Philip Roth 113 United States 20150591239222962074-smh. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Bradley’s Buzz: Not much spring love for new-look Braves Apr 6, 2009
Nobody in the world not Salman Rushdie, not Philip Roth, not John Ashbery uses adverbs with the flair of the LSU coach. For most football men, a bon mot is saying, We ll have to watch the tape. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Joan the jet may make it five for Clarry Apr 4, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Economy drive ; Our Joan Of Arc powers to win the Gimcrack Stakes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Hauritz and Hussey send South Africa packing Apr 4, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Mike Hussey topped scored for Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Plummer has high hopes for Swifts Apr 4, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald Sport: Australian and international sports news, results: AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Golf, Athens Olympics, Soccer, Tennis, Cricket, Basketball, Motorsport, Horse Racing, Rugby Heaven Skip directly to. Sydney Swifts coach Norma Plummer believes the team has what it takes to defend their title this season. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Sydney hope new signing is gold Kisel Apr 4, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Euro smash ; Slovakian international Karol Kisel is on his way to Sydney after signing a deal to link up with former Sparta Prague boss Vitezslav Lavicka again. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Don't ask Anne Michaels what she had for breakfast Apr 4, 2009
She also joined Martin Amis, Philip Roth, the Vladimir Nabokov estate, Salman Rushdie and Tipper Gore in being represented by the world's most famous literary agent, Andrew Wylie, nicknamed "the Jackal.". But, in a sense, all this has just been so much marking time for The Winter Vault, which after its publication in Canada, England, Germany, Norway, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the United States this spring will make its way into bookstores in Greece and Finland, Japan, Italy, Brazil... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
To Sir, with love Apr 4, 2009
Elegy is based on a novel by Philip Roth and its director is Isabel Coixet, whose subtle, compelling films include The Secret Life Of Words. "She brings a female eye to the very male perspective of Philip's novel," Kingsley says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jackson's Favorite Daughter Mar 29, 2009
Steinbeck had Salinas and Philip Roth has Newark ... celebrates author Eudora Welty Articles Steinbeck had Salinas and Philip Roth has Newark. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
A courtship of age and wisdom Mar 29, 2009
Only a man would be stupid enough to think that, and, perhaps, only Philip Roth would be brave enough to write it. So maybe it's unfair to suggest that, on occasion, Roth's work could benefit from a woman's touch. (Globe and Mail)
The Artist as a Kept Man Mar 25, 2009
We are in for at least four years of earnest middlebrow culture-vultures sucking up to the new president, whose reported tastes run from the exemplary (Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan) to the execrable (Toni Morrison, Philip Roth) and include, as far as I can tell, not a single writer or musician from his native Hawaii. For shame, oh rootless one. (The American Conservative)
Ben Kingsley's Elegy Mar 22, 2009
Based on novelist Philip Roth's The Dying Animal (2001), and admirably translated by screenwriter Nicolas Meyer, Director Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words) delicately handles Roth's sometimes abrupt displays of male hedonism. One of the many pleasures to be found in Elegy, as in most novels by Philip Roth (The Human Stain, American Pastoral), rotates around a central male-bonding relationship that will provide the main character an opportunity to express his feelings (or confusion) about... (Suite101.com)
Cheever’s conflicts - With family’s blessing, a new look at torments of a suburban author Mar 14, 2009
Other writers of Cheever s era - Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - wrestled with the political and social issues of the time. They paid attention to the headlines. (Missoulian, MT)
If 'Two Lovers' is Phoenix's last film, it's a fitting finale Feb 27, 2009
The "bad" girl, by contrast, is straight out of the Philip Roth playbook: Leonard's new neighbor Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), a highly strung Manhattan club-hopper with a married businessman boyfriend (Elias Koteas). When she wanders into Leonard's apartment and doesn't recognize a dreidel, the screen may as well flash "DANGER: SHIKSA ALERT." Naturally our hero is besotted. (Boston Globe)
Post 9/11 novel 'Netherland' wins PEN/Faulkner prize Feb 26, 2009
Previous winners include Philip Roth, John Updike and E.L. Doctorow. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. (USA Today -- Life)
Two more Roth novels coming Feb 26, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) Fifty years after debuting with Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth is as prolific as ever. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Wednesday that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author will have a novel out this fall, titled The Humbling, about an aging stage performer. (USA Today -- Life)
Philip Roth Biography and Books Feb 25, 2009
Brief biography and works of American novelist Philip Roth. American novelist Philip Roth is one of the leading satirists of modern American life ... Early Life of Philip Roth. (Suite101.com)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Now you see him, now you dont Feb 22, 2009
strain in postmodernism rendered even so vital a writer as Philip Roth a bit of a bore in novels of the 1980s and 1990s. Amos Oz has a light touch, but theres no disguising the way postmodernism rewrites the contract of fiction to the apparent benefit of the writer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Burlington Library programs Feb 21, 2009
The Last Wednesday Book Group will discuss Philip Roth s newest novel, Indignation, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the library. Described by critics as a taut, haunting, and funny story about a young man s coming of age in the 1950s, this is a book with much to say about the Silent Generation. (Burlington Union, MA)
Burlington Public Library programs Feb 14, 2009
The Last Wednesday Book Group will be discussing Philip Roth s newest novel, Indignation, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the library. Described by critics as a taut, haunting, and funny story about a young man s coming of age in the 1950s, this is a book with much to say about the Silent Generation. (Burlington Union, MA)
Praise for Updike, man of letters Feb 8, 2009
The American novelist Philip Roth described him as a national treasure. "John Updike is our time's greatest man of letters, as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short story writer. His death constitutes a loss to our literature that is immeasurable.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Farewell to a Much-Misunderstood Man Feb 8, 2009
I burned and yearned to know, just as Alexander Portnoy might have done, and was amazed later to discover that both Updike and Philip Roth were considered to be literature in the United States. Another apparent obstacle in the way of a full appreciation of Updike was his unabashedly WASP-like stance and character. (Slate)
A John Updike appreciation Feb 8, 2009
Like Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Norman Mailer, the other great white hairy-chested male writers (a bygone category in which Updike included himself), he chronicled a culture whose virility and belief in the future were on the ropes. He wrote about sex with a conflicted Protestant obsessiveness and a wariness of women that was reflective of that generation, and uneasily true. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
