Canceling Philip Roth in the Name of Progressive Neoliberalism?
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography. Jacques Berlinerblau. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Canceling Philip Roth in the Name of Progressive…
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography. Jacques Berlinerblau. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Canceling Philip Roth in the Name of Progressive…
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller.…
The most important task of political philosophy is the normative evaluation of society. This evaluation means separating the aspects of a societal status quo that ought to…
“A novel,” observed Milan Kundera in an 1980 interview with Philip Roth, “does not assert anything; a novel searches and poses questions . . . I don’t…
“I’m a novelist, but I’m not Émile Zola.”[1][2]—One phrase that could already squash this article’s premise, namely that Philip Roth should be considered as a public intellectual,…
This book looks at the political thought of one of the giants of American literature: Philip Roth. Roth’s depiction of American life may initially appear provincial, American-Jewish…
What can Philip Roth tell us about politics today? What can the author of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America tell us about…
Scholarly efforts to situate Philip Roth’s fiction within a political or historical framework can prove arduous and difficult. Indeed, his writing is so rich in literary innovation…
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition. Andy Connolly. Lexington Books, 2017. Since January 2017, some of us may have felt the urge to re-visit, either…