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The Plot Against America

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
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The Jewish writer, producer and showrunner saw the 2004 novel about an alternate WWII reality as outdated — until, he says, a spike in bigotry under the Trump administration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
David Krumholtz attends the premiere of HBO's "The Deuce" third and final season in New York, Sept. 5, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
March 7, 2020, 5:43 am
‘Numb3rs’ star says his grandfather was Meyer Lansky’s driver
‘I come from a long line of tough Jews,’ David Krumholtz says while promoting new TV series ‘The Plot Against America,’ which reimagines an America consumed by anti-Semitism
By Gabe Friedman
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
Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)
January 18, 2018, 12:01 pm
Philip Roth calls Trump a ‘massive fraud’ and ‘boastful buffoon’
The renowned American author’s 2004 novel ‘The Plot Against America’ will be adapted into 6-part miniseries, NY Times interview reveals
By Eric Cortellessa
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