Tag Philip Roth

Should I capitulate?

Four and a half years ago, I wrote about a passage in Claudia Roth Pierpoint’s biography of Philip Roth that some critics found incongruous: To Roth, the most important scene – “the pumping heart of the book” – was almost…

Anatomy of a complaint

Adam Mars-Jones quotes from Claudia Roth Pierpoint’s Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books: To Roth, the most important scene – ‘the pumping heart of the book’ – was almost entirely overlooked and has nothing to do with masturbation. It…