The Philip Roth Society

The annual Siegel/McDaniel Award, sponsored by the Philip Roth Society, recognizes high-quality graduate student papers written within the past year on any aspect of Philip Roth’s work. We recommend that faculty encourage their students to submit papers, and we welcome submissions from Roth Society members and non-members alike. Eligible graduate students should submit a clean copy of their 10-15 page essay, double-spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font to Miriam Jaffe, the

Jacques Berlinerblau discusses his new book on Roth and on writing biography: https://lithub.com/how-philip-roth-controlled-the-narrative-of-his-own-life/?fbclid=IwAR1HXpbiAfLFZlip_kSi5ABKEBqXlJjdFg5bEAoUntiDCroGFNVdUXJEV8U

Issue 17.2 of Philip Roth Studies has been sent off to the printer and will be available soon. Featuring essays from Ryan Sherwood, Michael Jardine, Francesco Samarini, Iven L. Heister, Jacques Berlinerblau, Bethania Michael, and Heather Walters. To find out how to join the Roth Society and subscribe to the journal see: https://www.philiprothsociety.org/membership

Audrey Speaks! (Unmuting Women): A Former Student Writes Back to Her Professor about Philip Roth’s Genius and Misogyny Audrey Rouhandeh and Jacques Berlinerblau PRS member Jacques Berlinerblau taught a seminar on Philip Roth in 2017. One of his students, Audrey Rouhandeh, had complicated feelings about Roth’s portrayals of women. She shared those feelings in class. In the intervening years, they occasionally corresponded while Berlinerblau worked on his book (released this we

Society member Ira Nadel's biography, Philip Roth: A Counterlife, received an excellent review in the most recent TLS. The title of the review is "Portnoy's Constraints," which is a rather great title. You may read the review here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philip-roth-counterlife-ira-nadel-book-review-alison-kelly/

Society member Jacques Berlinerblau's forth coming book on Roth, The Philip Roth We Don't Know, was featured in this weekend's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/29/a-master-of-self-promotion-letters-reveal-how-philip-roth-hustled-for-prizes?fbclid=IwAR3W5-yXPI82JdGjSnX3cQuOor210VPf03P3VFX7N_qm06Lhp3ORDCkt0hU