The Philip Roth Society

Charles McGrath, who delivered the keynote address at the Roth Society's 2019 conference, has published a version of his address in the current Hudson Review. The essay offers a deeply engaging look at these two writers whose careers were often linked. https://hudsonreview.com/2019/10/roth-updike/#.XbtGY0VKiL9

Roth's gift to the Newark public library featured in today's Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/philip-roth-left-more-than-2-million-to-his-hometown-library-in-newark-n-j-11572467686

David Simon discusses his upcoming Plot Against America adaptation at The New Yorker festival: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/david-simon-philip-roth-said-never-confuse-trump-lindbergh-1247241

The French journal Implications Philosophiques is planning a special issue on Philip Roth. The special dossier will be interested in the quasi-philosophical inquiry Roth conducts in his novels, with literary rather than philosophical techniques. It will look at how Roth's work explores the "philosophical implications" of the nature of reality and literature, identity, politics, aging, the body, sexuality, affect, Judaism, family, and community. The journal seeks paper proposa