Topic: Philip Roth

Philip Roth: 10 quotes on his birthday

10 quotes on Philip Roth's 79th birthday.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2011: The surprising top 4 favorites

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature – one of the highest awards a writer can receive – will be announced on Thursday. Here’s a somewhat surprising look at the top four contenders.

Syrian poet Adonis leads the pack in betting for 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature winner

Thomas Pynchon is the American author closest to top, but still considered a long shot with odds of 16 to 1.

Tom Perrotta talks about "The Leftovers"

"The Rapture is ... a surprisingly rich metaphor for growing older and living with loss," says Perrotta of the end-time theme in "The Leftovers."

Write stuff: The workshop that shapes American literature

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, on its 75th anniversary, offers a window into the state of American letters.

A slap at Philip Roth – or a dig at American writers?

A Booker International Prize judge quits when the award goes to Philip Roth.

The Unbelievers

What is most interesting about contemporary atheists is not what they have in common but rather their differences.

Bestselling books the week of 10/28/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 10/21/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of Oct. 14, 2010, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Howard Jacobson turns the 2010 Man Booker Prize into a laughing matter

Howard Jacobson is awarded the Man Booker Prize for his darkly comic novel "The Finkler Question."

Is today's fiction irrelevant?

The blogosphere debates: Are today's novels merely clever where they should be deep?

Goodbye, Columbus

Reader recommendation

American Pastoral

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood’s dark, sharp, dystopic novel picks up where ‘Oryx and Crake’ left off.

The bets are on for the 2009 Nobel prize for literature

Who will win the Pulitzer Prize?

Classic review: The Armchair Book of Baseball

Let the games begin!

'The book was better': Movies that didn't measure up

What not to say on your cellphone

Don’t call me anymore to ask, ‘Did you bring my laundry upstairs?’

Odds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in Literature

What book reviewers are saying this week

Indignation

Philip Roth's new novel just rails against religion in 1950s America.

Review: 'Elegy'

Based on a Philip Roth novel, 'Elegy' traces the passionate entanglement of an aging professor with a strikingly beautiful student, played by Penélope Cruz.

Looking for real virtue in literature

Fiction should reject solipsistic preoccupations and examine the world at large.