SOURCE: Posnock, Ross. “Purity and Danger: On Philip Roth.” Raritan 21, no. 2 (fall 2001): 85-101.
In the following essay, Posnock explores the tension between the good boy/bad boy persona used within Roth's novels, particularly in The Human Stain.
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