Author: Debra Shostak

Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as i …

"Demonstrates powerfully the manifold ways in which Roth’s writing often helped to shape, and was in turn shaped by, the larger political climate." -David Brauner, author of Contemporary Am …

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would …

Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth’s first novel, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he follow …

A cutting-edge collection of original essays on American literary giant Philip Roth offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of recent texts. …