Updates on the Roth Reading Room
News on the Roth Reading Room being constructed at the Newark Public Library: https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/02/newark-public-library-taps-ann-beha-architects-to-complete-the-new-philip-roth-reading-room.html
Joshua Cohen Reviews Blake Bailey's Roth Bio
Joshua Cohen published a review of Blake Bailey's forthcoming Roth Bio in Harper's. Here"s the link: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/the-possessed-philip-roth-the-biography-blake-bailey/
Society Member Jacques Berlinerblau publishes essay on Roth and Race in Salon
Jacques Berlinerblau published an essay on Roth's view on race in Salon. The pieces is first- serial excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race, Autobiography, which will be published University of Virginia Press this summer. Here's the link: https://www.salon.com/2021/02/07/philip-roth-and-race-a-legendary-novelists-troubling-pattern/
