The Philip Roth Society

What makes American Pastoral a great American novel? What does the American Pastoral refer to? How is American Pastoral relevant for readers today? Join the NAS on July 1st at 2 pm ET to find out! This event will feature Michael Wood, Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University; Matthew Shipe, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Advanced Writing at Washington University in St. Louis; and Steven Malanga, Senior Editor of City Journal and George M. Yeager Fello

Society member Maggie McKinley's collection, Roth in Context, is about to be published by Cambridge University Press. McKinley just published this short blog post to discuss the project: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2021/05/35-ways-of-looking-at-philip-roth/

The Jewish News of Northern California ran an article on the recent roundtable. It can be found here: https://www.jweekly.com/2021/06/07/it-deserves-to-exist-stanford-prof-who-knew-philip-roth-weighs-in-on-biography-controversy/

The opening of Roth's Personal Library in the Newark Public Library was featured in today's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/books/philip-roth-newark-library.html?smid=em-share

For those who missed the Roth Reconsidered roundtable, the discussion with Steven Zipperstein, Aimee Pozorski, and Jesse Tisch, is now able to be streamed. Here's the link: https://youtu.be/frWg-uPainc

Society members Aimee Pozorski and Ira Nadel were featured in the story considering the future of Roth's legacy and his papers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/books/philip-roth-biography-blake-bailey.html?searchResultPosition=1