Philip Roth
The characters in her new story collection are fully formed creatures of that transitional 20th-century moment between European Jewish survivors and American forgetters.
Sympathetic to Israel and hostile to the radical left, Roth was not always the rebellious Jew.
An inadvertent warning about the dangers of political infantilization.
Separated by a common language?
The tale of the pupik.
And British insistence that there is no such thing.
Jewish literature, like Jews, will either become more overtly Jewish, or cease to be Jewish at all.
Joyless exuberance.
The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.
A once-bustling immigrant city.
If kitsch has a “fairy-tale glow,” then Here I Am is positively radiant.
More than Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, James Salter (né Horowitz) captures the situation of assimilated American Jews—by never writing from a Jewish perspective.