Novelist Phillip Roth steers clear of provocation in the PBS documentary Philip Roth: Unmasked; he comes across, rather, as sensible, sensitive, maybe a bit cranky but hardly outrageous at all. And ...
Philip Roth liked to booby-trap his biographers. In “Exit Ghost” (2007), he calls biography “the lowest of literary rackets.” Yet one version of biography kept drawing him back. “Making fake biography ...
Philip Roth died Tuesday, May 22, 2018, we listen back to his interviews about his books 'Goodbye Columbus' and 'Portnoy's Complaint,' ‘The Plot Against America,’ and ‘Everyman.’ Roth died at age 85.