The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works. Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey, and his days as a col...

[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.] A major writer of twentieth-century American literature, Philip Roth has produced an impr...

In 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it also may be an answer to critics who keep waiting for him...

AMERICAN PASTORAL. By Philip Roth. Houghton and Mifflin; 432 pages; $26. Cape; K15.99 (to be published in June) THE American dream just about survives in Philip Roth's latest-and particularly fine-novel. But it takes a terrible licking. The story is set mostly in...

The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99, 360 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 MICHAEL COLLINS made his mark two years ago, when The Keepers of Truth was short-listed for the Booker. Like...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at a lengthy memorial service Monday at King's old church and was endorsed by several black religious leaders.While his main GOP rivals campaigned in Florida, Huckabee sat quietly through a nearly four-hour King...

Philip Roth says he's done with Nathan Zuckerman. But is Nathan done with Philip Roth? "Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman," the headline from Time magazine reads. Roth, the story declares, "has exhausted the possibilities of his character," the fictional adventurer of "The Ghost Writer," "The Anatomy Lesson"...

[In the following review Hardwick briefly compares American Pastoral to several other works by Roth: Operation Shylock. The Anatomy Lesson, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Professor of Desire. She examinines the evolution of the character Nathan Zuckerman through the course of these novels.]

[In the following review Boyers comments on Roth's examination of moral virtues, decency, and American society in his novel American Pastoral.]

[In the following essay, Menand analyzes many of the themes in American Pastoral and compares it briefly to several other works by Roth.]