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Philip Roth

Steven J. Zipperstein said his training as a historian helped him separate truth from fiction in writing his biography of Roth. (Yale University Press via JTA)
October 31, 2025, 1:21 am
Philip Roth’s latest biographer wants Jews to read him again — without the guilt
In ‘Philip Roth: Stung by Life,’ Stanford professor Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who ‘probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ariel Levy and John Turturro pose at the opening night party for The New Group Theater's new play 'Sabbath's Theater,' at Green Fig Urban Eatery on November 1, 2023, in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/ Getty Images via JTA)
November 7, 2023, 1:37 am
How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage
Collaborating with John Turturro, who played another Roth character in HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America,’ the play ‘Sabbath’s Theater’ is about sex and is a ‘meditation on mourning’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Philip Roth. (Courtesy NJPAC)
March 17, 2023, 4:15 am
Even Portnoy wouldn’t complain about Newark gala for provocative author Philip Roth
Actors John Turturro, Matthew Broderick and Tony Shalhoub, plus a slew of appropriately edgy writers, will head up a 3-day literary festival for the hometown hero March 17-19
By Jordan Hoffman
Author Jennifer Caplan alongside her new book, 'Funny You Don't Look Funny.' (Courtesy)
March 7, 2023, 5:45 am
Is that (still) funny? Scholar explores generational shifts in Jewish humor
In her new book, ‘Funny, You Don’t Look Funny,’ Jennifer Caplan traces attitudes toward American Jewish comedy from Philip Roth to ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘SNL’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
By Amy Spiro
In this March 22, 1993 file photo, American author Philip Roth is seen during an interview promoting his book 'Operation Shylock: A Confession,' in New York (AP Photo, File)
July 31, 2020, 12:53 pm
‘Don’t rehabilitate me, make me interesting’: Philip Roth bio to drop in spring
‘Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth?’ That’s what Blake Bailey says the late Jewish novelist asked him when approached about the book
By Hillel Italie
Morgan Spector, center, as Herman Levin, and Zoe Kazan, right, as Bess Levin, in HBO's "The Plot Against America." (Michele K. Short/HBO)
April 18, 2020, 4:40 pm
I cover anti-Semitism. ‘The Plot Against America’ is the scariest show I’ve seen
With an incredibly realistic world and characters, and an unsettling sense of government manipulation, TV drama has made everything I work with feel more close to home
By Gabe Friedman
Charles Lindbergh poses alongside the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane in which he completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. (Bettmann/Getty Images, via JTA)
March 21, 2020, 3:37 pm
The true history behind HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’
Yes, Charles Lindbergh really did give that anti-Semitic speech. No, he didn’t really run for US president… but the idea is not simply a product of Philip Roth’s imagination
By Lior Zaltzman
A still from HBO's 'The Plot Against America.' (Michele K. Short/HBO)
March 19, 2020, 2:39 am
Now may be the best time to watch HBO’s surreal ‘The Plot Against America’
Airing weekly through April 20, the six-part series based on a Philip Roth novel imagines a vastly different outcome to WWII in the US, and pairs well with current headlines
By Jordan Hoffman
John Turturro as a rabbi and supporter of Charles Lindbergh in 'The Plot Against America.' (Michele K. Short/HBO/via JTA)
March 18, 2020, 1:55 am
David Simon didn’t like Philip Roth’s ‘The Plot Against America’ — until now
The Jewish writer, producer and showrunner saw the 2004 novel about an alternate WWII reality as outdated — until, he says, a spike in bigotry under the Trump administration
By Curt Schleier
A scene from the new HBO series 'The Plot Against America,' which is based on the Philip Roth novel portraying the election of an anti-Semitic US president. (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 31, 2020, 7:47 pm
‘Plot Against America’ brings anti-Semitic what-if to TV
HBO releases first trailer from television adaptation of Philip Roth novel about election of aviator-turned-fascist Charles Lindbergh
By JTA and ToI Staff
Philip Roth in Aix en Provence, France, in 1999. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images, JTA)
July 12, 2019, 1:01 pm
A look at the most interesting Philip Roth possessions up for auction
Some of the late Jewish author’s typewriters are among the 129 items from his estate to be sold next week, with proceeds going to charity
By Josefin Dolsten
Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)
February 22, 2019, 2:48 pm
Philip Roth’s New York apartment up for sale
Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author’s two-bedroom place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side being offered for $3.2 million
By JTA
Journalist and author Stephen Shepard. (Courtesy)
August 22, 2018, 11:51 pm
Media giant traces secular Jewish roots in the leaves of great American authors
Promoting his new book, former editor-in-chief of Business Week, Stephen Shepard, says writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth ‘make it okay’ to be a non-religious Jew
By Rich Tenorio
Miranda Cooper
June 1, 2018, 8:41 am
Miranda Cooper
Philip Roth was — and will be — a character
The late author’s persona will likely keep cropping up in new works long after his death
This file photo taken on March 2, 2011 shows US novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony at the White House in Washington DC, where he received the National Humanities Medal. (AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)
May 26, 2018, 12:36 am
Philip Roth won’t be having a Jewish funeral
Celebrated writer ‘expressly forbade’ religious rituals at his burial, but chose plot near Jewish colleagues ‘so he has someone to talk to’
By Josefin Dolsten
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