Sisyphus at the Selectric
James Wolcott: Undoing Philip Roth, 20 May 2021
Philip Roth: The Biography
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,978 0 224 09817 5 Show More
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,
Philip Roth: A Counterlife
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,978 0 19 984610 8 Show More
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,978 0 525 50524 2 Show More
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,
“... more unsavoury amours and making clucking sounds of bourgeois disapproval, he incurred the ire of King Saul. Roth took Bellow’s side, because of course he did. ‘The writers I admired most in the world were conspiring against me,’ Atlas lamented, victim of a classic squeeze play. As a bonus indignity Roth inserted a nasty sideswipe at an Atlas-like ... ”