Philip Roth

Remote, picturesque Mazama, Wash., to host book festival

2012-06-29 16:37:03

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Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

2012-05-18 16:37:02

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'Mad Women' by Jane Maas

2012-03-23 00:00:00

"Does she or doesn't she?" — the innuendo-filled catchphrase for Clairol from 1956 easily could have been conceived by "Mad Men's" Don Draper. It was not, of course, but rather was penned by one of the few female copywriters of her day. Jane Maas,...

Book review: Shalom Auslander's 'Hope'

2012-01-15 00:00:00

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson

2011-12-06 16:34:27

Handicapping the Nobel Prize in literature: a guide

2011-09-29 16:34:56

AFI Fest 2011: The literate anxieties of 'The Color Wheel'

2011-11-04 16:36:54

The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon

2011-09-01 16:34:52

'Last Night in Twisted River' by John Irving

2009-10-25 00:00:00

Last Night in Twisted River A Novel John Irving Random House: 558 pp., $28 The opening passages of "Last Night in Twisted River" recycle John Irving's signature themes at such dizzy speed, it's as though the author were ticking boxes. New England?...

You're so nauseously nice: Getting Insulted by Authors

2011-03-24 16:34:47

Hans Keilson dies at 101; author fled Nazis, recently drew great acclaim

2011-06-04 21:23:00

Hans Keilson was a newly minted physician in the mid-1930s when the persecution began. As a Jew in Hitler's Germany, he was stripped of the right to practice medicine. A writer, he soon lost that identity too: His autobiographical first novel was pulped...

Man Booker International finalists include three Americans

2011-03-29 21:34:48

Author Philip Roth in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin in New York.

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Back in 1982, Ben Kingsley won the best actor Oscar for "Gandhi," a sprawling biopic that also took the best picture prize.

2008-10-31 16:31:37

Michael C. Hall , though immersed in the Dexter freight train, as he puts it, is finding time to read a Philip Roth anthology.

2008-09-27 14:47:36