The CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center says the late author, the subject of a new biography, enlightened him about what it means to be a father, a son, a writer and an American.

Former President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Philip Roth in 2011. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A bestselling biography of late novelist Philip Roth has been yanked by its ...

Philip Roth describes his admiration for Saul Bellow in Roth's final interview. In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for ...

Much has changed in recent weeks. Last month, Bailey’s publisher, W.W. Norton, announced that it was halting promotion and distribution of the book after Bailey was accused of grooming, and in one ...

A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book’s shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of ...

During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...

This paperback cover image released by Skyhorse Publishing shows "Philip Roth: The Biography," by Blake Bailey. The long-awaited book about Roth that was pulled last month by original publisher W. W.

According to an old joke, the Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto find themselves surrounded. “We are going to die,” the Lone Ranger says, to which Tonto replies: “What do you mean ‘we?’” Though ...

Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. “Let’s hope the first comes first,” he said in a 2013 interview. Roth, the author ...

Ten years ago, at Philip Roth’s urging, his agent, Andrew Wylie, informed the literary critic and academic Ira Nadel “that he didn’t have permission to quote from Roth’s work, nor would any of Roth’s ...