Can the work of a novelist who has made an art out of his alter egos be illuminated by a chronicle of his life?
Today we remember great American author Philip Roth, who entered public consciousness with the elegiac coming of age Goodbye, Columbus, inflamed the world with the crude, hilarious Portnoy’s Complaint, and introduced Nathan Zuckerman in 1974’s My Life as a Man, a character bearing more than a passing resemblance to Roth himself. The author would follow Zuckerman through […]