New Book Tells Story Of The Coffeehouse As Silk Road For Art, Politics, Ideas

A moveable feast of Jewish culture.

Episode 4: This Woman Is Fighting To Keep Women’s Pictures In Orthodox Media

The Roth-Malamud Feud: What’s A Jew?

Ilana Kurshan Wins Sami Rohr Prize For ‘If All The Seas Were Ink’

Her memoir chronicles her years studying Talmud.

Ari Ben Portnoy

The Philip Roth-Leon Uris battle still resonates, decades later. Who are we? The fighter or the kvetcher? The noble or the nebbish? The ideal or the real?

The Last Of The Mohicans

Philip Roth, Native Son

The Library of America publisher reflects on the great novelist’s complexities.

First Person: Writing In Roth’s Room At Yaddo

The lessons of a writer’s liberation.

Writers’ Block: Responding To Critiques From Philip Roth And Michael Chabon

Philip Roth Won’t Be Having A Jewish Funeral

10 Writers Capturing The Female American Jewish Experience

Roth And The Anxiety Of Influence

A baby boomer novelist reflects on what the literary giant meant to writers.

From ‘Goodbye Columbus’ To ‘Everyman,’ A Philip Roth Reader Measures His Impact

And recalls the infamous YU “inquisition” of the iconic American author.

Philip Roth Showed Me How To Be An American Jew

Philip Roth, Enfant Terrible Turned Peerless Chronicler Of American Jewish Life, Has Died At 85

In addition to winning nearly every literary award for writers in English, Roth was embraced by the Jewish community over his long career.