Philip Roth

Brief Biography and Awards

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933. He was educated at Bucknell University, where he received his B.A., and the University of Chicago, where he completed his M. A. and taught English. Afterwards, at both Iowa and Princeton, he taught creative writing . His first book was Goodbye, Columbus, whose title novella and five short stories present witty, ironic, and preceptive depictions of Jewish life in the U.S. in a flip, personal style. He is perhaps best known--notoriously so, to many--for his third novel, Portnoy's Complaint, a wildly comic depcition of his middle-class New York Jewish world in the portait of Alexander Portnoy, whose possessive mother makes him so guiltily insecure that he can seek relief only in elaborate masturbation and sex with forbidden shiksas. Since then, he has written in a number of different narrative modes, the most significant includes the series of Nathan Zuckerman novels (My Life As a Man, The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Counterlife) and his postmodern (auto)biographies The Facts, Deception, Patrimony, and Operation Shylock. He currently lives in Connecticut. His awards include:
Second prize in the O. Henry Prize Story Contest of 1960 for "Defender of the Faith"
National Book Award for Fiction in 1960 for Goodbye, Columbus
National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987 for The Counterlife
National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 for Patrimony
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock
Time magazine's Best American Novel of 1993 for Operaton Shylock
National Book Award for Fiction in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater

Primary Works - Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Letting Go. New York: Random House, 1962.
When She Was Good. New York: Random House, 1967.
Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House, 1969.
Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends). New York: Random House, 1971.
The Breast. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
The Great American Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
My Life As a Man. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
The Professor of Desire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
The Ghost Writer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
A Philip Roth Reader. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
Zuckerman Unbound. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.
The Anatomy Lesson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.
The Counterlife. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
Deception: A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Patrimony: A True Story. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Operation Shylock: A Confession. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Sabbath's Theater. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Primary Works - Nonfiction

Reading Myself and Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

Primary Works - Uncollected Stories

"Philosophy, Or Something Like That." Et Cetera May 1952: 5, 16.
"The Box of Truths." Et Cetera October 1952: 10-12.
"The Fence." Et Cetera May 1953: 18-23.
"Armando and the Fraud." Et Cetera October 1953: 21-32.
"The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn." Et Cetera May 1954: 20-28.
"The Day It Snowed." Chicago Review 8 (1954): 34-45.
"The Contest for Aaron Gold." Epoch 5-6 (1955): 37-50.
"Heard Melodies Are Sweeter." Esquire Aug. 1958: 58.
"Expect the Vandals." Esquire Dec. 1958: 208-28.
"The Love Vessel." Dial I 1 (1959): 41-68.
"Good Girl." Cosmopolitan May 1960: 98-103.
"The Mistaken." American Judaism 10 (1960): 10.
"Novotny's Pain." New Yorker 27 Oct. 1962: 46-56.
"Psychoanalytic Special." Esquire Nov. 1963: 106.
"On the Air." New American Review 10 (1970): 7-49.

Primary Works - Uncollected Essays

"Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue." Chicago Review 11 (1957): 21-24.
"Mrs. Lindbery, Mr. Ciardi, and the Teeth and Claws of the Civilized World." Chicago Review 11 (1957): 72-76.
"The Kind of Person I Am." New Yorker 29 Nov. 1958: 173-178.
"Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope." Harper's July 1959: 42-48.
"American Fiction." Commentary Sept. 1961: 248-52. (Letters about "Writing American Fiction" and Roth's response)
"Iowa: A Very Far Contry Indeed." Esquire Dec. 1962: 19-32.
"Philip Roth Talks to Teens." Seventeen April 1963: 170.
"Second Dialogue in Israel." Congress Bi-Weekly 30 (1963): 4-85.
"An Actor's Life for Me." Playboy Jan. 1964: 84-86, 228-35.
"Philip Roth Tells about When She Was Good." Literary Guild Magazine July 1967: unpaginated.
"Introduction: Milan Kundera, Edward and God." American Poetry Review March/April 1974: 5.
"Introduction: Jiri Weil, Two Stories about Nazis and Jews." American Poetry Review Sept./Oct. 1974: 22.
"In Search of Kafka and Other Answers." The New York Times Book Review 15 Feb. 1976: 6-7.
"Roth and Singer on Bruno Schulz." The New York Times Book Review 13 Feb. 1977: 5. (Interview with Singer on the publication of The Street of Crocodiles)
"The Most Original Book of the Season." The New York Times Book Review 30 Nov. 1980: 7. (Interview with Milan Kundera)
"A Man Saved by His Skills: An Interview with Primo Levi." The New York Times Book Review 12 Oct. 1986: 1.
"A Talk with Aharon Appelfield." The New York Times Book Review 28 Feb. 1988: 1.
"A Bit of Jewish Mischief." The New York Times Book Review 7 March 1993: 1+.
"Juice or Gravy? How I Met My Fate in a Cafeteria." The New York Times Book Review 18 Sept. 1984: 3+.

Primary Works - Uncollected Reviews

"Rescue from Philosophy." New Republic 10 June 1957: 22. (On the film Funny Face)
"I Don't Want to Embarrass You." New Republic 15 July 1957: 21-22. (On Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person)
"The Hurdles of Satire." New Republic 9 Sept. 1957: 22. (On Sid Caesar's comedy hour.)
"Coronation on Channel Two." New Republic 23 Sept. 1957: 21. (On the Miss America Pageant)
"Films as Sociology." New Republic 21 Oct. 1957: 21-22. (On the films Something of Value and Hatful of Rain)
"The Proper Study of Show Business." New Republic 23 Dec. 1957: 21. (On the films Pal Joey and Les Girls)
"Channel X: Two Plays on the Race Conflict." New York Review of Books 28 May 1964: 10-13. (On Jame's Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie and LeRoi Jones's Dutchman)
"Seasons of Discontent." The New York Times Book Review 7 Nov. 1965: 2. (On Robert Burnstein's Seasons of Discontent)

Primary Works - Interviews

Conversations with Philip Roth. Ed. by Georges Searles. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1992.
"Dialog: Philip Roth." Chicago Tribune Magazine 25 Sept. 1977: 74-75.
"Jewishness and the Younger Intellectuals." Commentary April 1961: 306-359. Symposium.
"Second Dialogue in Israel." Congress Bi-Weekly 16 Sept. 1963: 4-85. Symposium.

Critical Works - Books

Murray Baumgarten and Barbara Gottfried. Understanding Philip Roth. Columbia: University of South Carloina Press, 1990.
Harold Bloom, ed. Philip Roth. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Jay L. Halio. Philip Roth Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Judith Paterson Jones and Guinevera A. Nance. Philip Roth. New York: Ungar, 1981.
Herminone Lee. Philip Roth. New York: Methuen, 1982.
John N. McDaniel. The Fiction of Philip Roth. Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974.
Glenn Meeter. Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth: A Critical Essay. Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 1968.
Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson, eds. Reading Philip Roth. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Sanford Pinsker. The Comedy That "Hoits": An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1975.
Sanford Pinsker. Critical Essays on Philip Roth. Boston: Hall, 1982.
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. Philip Roth. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. Philip Roth: A Bibliography. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1974.
George J. Searles. The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike . Carbondale: Southern Illinios University Press, 1985.

Critical Works - Articles or Parts of Books

Note: This list is far from exhaustive. For the most part, it reflects the most contemporary criticism.

Mary Allan. "Philip Roth: When She Was Good She Was Horrid." The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major Fiction of the Sixties. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. 70-96.
Frank R. Ardolino. "The Americanization of the Gods: Onomastics, Myth, and History in Philip Roth's The Great American Novel." Arete 3 (1985): 37-60.
Frank R. Ardolino. "'Hit Sign, Win Suit': Abraham, Isaac, and the Schwabs Living over the Scoreboard in Roth's The Great American Novel." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (9189): 219-23.
Peter J. Bailey "'Why Not Tell the Truth?': The Autobiographies of Three Fiction Writers." Critique 32 (1991): 211-23.
Charles Berryman. "Philip Roth: Mirrors or Desire." Markham Review 12 (1983): 26-31.
Charles Berryman. "Philip Roth and Nathan Zuckerman: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Prometheus." Contemporary Literature 31 (1990): 177-90.
J. W. Bertens. "'The Measured Self' vs. the Insatiable Self': Some Notes on Philip Roth." From Cooper to Philip Roth: Essays on American Literature. Eds. J. Bakker and D. R. M. Wilkinson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980. 93-107.
"Portnoy Psychoanalyzed." Midstream 15 (1969): 3-10.
Thomas Blues. "Is There Life after Baseball: Philip Roth's The Great American Novel." American Studies 22 (1981): 71-80.
Diane Kim Bowman. "Flying High: The American Icarus in Morrison, Roth, and Updike." Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 8 (1982): 10-17.
Russell E .Brown. "Philip Roth and Bruno Schulz." ANQ 6 (1993): 211-14.
John Budd. "Philip Roth's Lesson from the Master." NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 6 (1982): Item 21.
James B. Carothers. "Midwestern Civilization and Its Discontents: Lewis's Carol Kennicott and Roth's Lucy Nelson." Midwestern Miscellany 9 (1981): 21-30.
Alan Cheuse. "A World without Realists." Studies on the Left 4 (1964): 68-82.
Joseph Cohen. "Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: Reflections on Philip Roth's Recent Fiction." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 196-204.
Stanley Cooperman. "Philip Roth: 'Old Jacob's Eye' with a Squint." Twentieth-Century Literature 19 (1973): 203-16.
Frederick Crews. "Uplift." New York Review of Books 16 Nov. 1972: 18-20.
Keith Cushman. "Looking at Philip Roth Looking at Kafka." Yiddish 4:4 (1982): 12-31.
Irving Deer and Harriet Deer. "Philip Roth and the Crisis in American Fiction." Minnesota Review 6:4 (1966): 353-60.
Robert Detweiler. "Philip Roth adn the Test of the Dialogic Life." Four Spiritual Crises in Mid-Century American Fiction Gainesville: University of Florida Monographs #14 (1963): 25-35.
Morris Dickstein. "Black Humor and History: The Early Sixties." Gates of Eden--American Culture in the Sixties." New York: Basic, 1977. 91-127.
Scott Donaldson. "Philip Roth: The Meanings of Letting Go." Contemporary Literature 11 (1970): 21-35.
Philip Dodd. "History or Fiction: Balancing Contemporary Autobiography's Claims." Mosaic 20 (1987): 61-69.
Brian Finney. "Roth's Counterlife: Destabilizing the Facts." Biography 16 (1993): 370-87.
Alan W. France. "Reconsideration: Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and the Limits of Commodity Culture." MELUS 15:4 (1988): 83-89.
William A. Francis. "Naming in Philip Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" Literary Onomastics Studies 15 (1988): 59-62.
Brooke Fredericksen. "Home is Where the Text Is: Exile, Homeland, and Jewish American Writing." Studies in American Jewish Literature 11 (1992): 36-44.
Alan Warren Friedman. "The Jew's Complaint in Recent American Fiction: Beyond Exodus and Still in the Wilderness." Southern Review 8 (1972): 41-59.
Melvin J. Friedman. "Texts and Countertexts: Philip Roth Unbound." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 224-30.
Andrew Furman. "The Ineluctable Holocaust in the Fiction of Philip Roth." Studies in American Jewish Literature 12 (1993): 109-212.
Marshall Bruce Gentry. "Ventriloquists' Conversations: The Struggle for Gender Dialogue in E. L. Doctorow and Philip Roth." Contemporary Literature 34 (1993): 512-37.
Sam B. Girgus. "Between Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy: Becoming a Man and Writer in Roth's Feminist 'Family Romance.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 143-53.
Sam B. Girgus. "Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Freud and the Humor of the Repressed." Semites nad Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor. Eds. Avner Ziv and Anat Zajdman. Westport: Greenwood Press, (1993): 121-30.
Sol Gittleman. "The Pecks of Woodenton, Long Island, Thirty Years Later: Another Look at 'Eli, the Fanatic.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 138-42.
Mark F. Goldman. "Books: The Jew As Lover." National Jewish Monthly Nov. 1969: 64-67.
Albert Goldman. "Wild Blue Shocker: Portnoy's Complaint." Life 7 Feb. 1969: 56B-65.
Eugene Goodheart. "'Postmodern' Meditations on the Self: The Work of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo." Desire and Its Discontents. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
Eugene Goodheart. "Writing and the Unmaking of the Self." Contemporary Literature 29 (1988): 438-53.
Geoffrey Green. "Metamorphosing Kafka: The Example of Philip Roth." The Dove and the Mole: Kafka's Journey into Darkness and Creativity. Eds Ronald Gottesman and Moshe Lazar. Malibu: Undena, 1987. 35-46.
Michael Greenstein. "Ozick, Roth, and Postmodernism." Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 54-64.
Barry Gross. "American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of 'The Human Negro' in Philip Roth." MELUS 11:2 (1984): 5-22.
Barry Gross. "Sophie Portnoy and 'The Opossum's Death': American Sexism adn Jewish Anti-Gentilism." Studies in American Jewish Literature 3 (1983): 166-78.
Allen Guttman. "Philip Roth and the Rabbis." The Jewish Writer in America: Assimilation and the Crisis of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. 64-76.
Charles B. Harris. "Updike and Roth: The Limits of Representationalism." Contemporary Literature 27 (1986): 279-84.
Walter L. Harrison. "Baseball and American Jews." Journal of Popular Culture 15 (1981): 112-18.
W. Clark Hendley. "An Old Form Revitalized: Philip Roth's Ghost Writer and the Bildungsroman." Studies in the Novel 16 (1984): 87-100.
W. Clark Hendley. "Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer: A Bildungsroman for Today." Design, Pattern, Style: Hallmarks of a Developing American Culture. Ed. Don Harkness. Tampa: American Studies Press, 1983. 45-47.
David H. Hirsch. "Jewish Identity and Jewish Suffering in Bellow, Malamud, and Philip Roth." Saul Bellow Journal 8 (1989): 47-58.
Baruch Hochman. "Child and Man in Philip Roth." Midstream 13 (1967): 68-76.
Irving Howe. "Philip Roth Reconsidered." Commentary Dec. 1972: 69-77.
Dan Isaac. "In Defense of Philip Roth." Chicago Review 17 (1964): 84-96.
Charles M. Israel. "The Fractured Hero of Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" Critique 16 (1974): 5-11.
Rodger Kamenetz. "'The Hocker, Misnomer . . . Love/Dad': Philip Roth's Patrimony." The Southern Review 27 (1991): 937-45.
Elaine M. Kauvar. "This Doubly Reflected Communication: Philip Roth's 'Autobiographies.'" Contemporary Literature 36 (1995): 412-46.
Alfred Kazan. "The Earthly City of Jews." Bright Book of Life. Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Co., 1973. 144-49.
Steven G. Kellman. "Philip Roth's Ghost Writer." Comparative Literature Studies 21 (1984): 175-85.
Steven G. Kellman. "Reading Himself and Kafka: The Apprenticeship of Philip Roth." Newsletter fo teh Kafka Society of America 6:1-2 (1982): 25-33.
Jerry Klinkowitz. "Philip Roth's Anti-Baseball Novel." Western Humanities Review 47 (1993): 30-40.
Augustus M. Kolich. "Does Fiction Have to Be Made Better Than Life?" Modern Fiction Studies 29 (1983): 159-74.
Joseph Landis. "The Sadness of Philip Roth: An Interim Report." Massachusetts Review 3 (1962): 259-68.
Ann Leavey. "Philip Roth: A Bibliographic Essay (1984-1988)." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 212-18.
Cherie S. Lewis. "Philip Roth on the Screen." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 204-11.
Bonnie Lyons. "'Jews on the Brain' in 'Wrathful Philippics.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 186-95.
Norman Macleod. "A Note on Philip Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus' and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." International Fiction Review 12 (1985): 104-107.
Nancy K. Miller. "Autobiographical Deaths." The Massachusetts Review 33 (1992): 19-47.
Lawrence E. Mintz. "Devil and Angel: Philip Roth's Humor." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 154-67.
David Monaghan. "The Great American Novel and My Life As a Man: An Assessment of Philip Roth's Achievement." International Fiction Review 2 (1975): 113-20.
Marvin Mudrick. "Who Killed Herzog? or Three American Novelists." University of Denver Quarterly 1 (1966): 61-97.
Brian Murray. "When He Was Good." Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture 10 (1986): 32-34.
Charles C. Nash. "From West Egg to Short Hills: The Decline of the Pastoral Ideal from The Great Gatsby to Philip Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 13 (1988): 22-27.
Gerald B. Nelson. "Neil Klugman." Ten Versions of America. New York: Knopf, 1972. 147-62.
Helge Normann Nilsen. "On Love and Identity: Neil Klugman's Quest in 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" English Studies 68 (1987): 79-88.
Helge Normann Nilsen. "The Protest of a Jewish-American Writer and Son: Philip Roth's Zuckerman Novels." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 17 (1987): 38-52.
Helge Normann Nilsen. "Rebellion Against Jewishness: Portnoy's Complaint." English Studies 65 (1984): 495-503.
Helge Normann Nilsen. "A Struggle for Identity: Neil Klugman’s Quest in 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" The International Fiction Review 12 (1985): 97-101.
Randy W. Oakes. "Faces of the Master in Roth's The Ghost Writer." NMAL: Notes on Modern American LIterature 8 (1984): Item 11.
Patrick O’Donnell. "The Disappearing Text: Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer." Contemporary Literature 24 (1983): 365-78.
Sanford Pinsker. "Deconstruction as Apology: The Counterfictions of Philip Roth." Bearing the Bad News. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1990.
Sanford Pinsker. "The Facts, the 'Unvarnished Truth,' and the Fictions of Philip Roth." Studies in American Jewish Literature 11 (1992): 108-17.
Sanford Pinsker. "Imagination on the Ropes." The Georgia Review 37 (1983): 880-88.
Sanford Pinsker. "Imagining American Reality." The Southern Review 29 (1993): 767-81.
Sanford Pinsker. "Jewish-American Literature's Lost-and-Found Department: How Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick Reimagine Their Significant Dead." Modern Fiction Studies 35 (1989): 223-35.
Sanford Pinsker. "Marrying Anne Frank: Modernist Art , the Holocaust, and Mr. Philip Roth." Literature, the Arts, and the Holocaust. Eds. Sanford Pinsker and Jack Fischel. Greenwood: Penkevill, 1987. 43-58.
Norman Podhoretz. "Laureate of the New Class." Commentary Dec. 1972: 4.
Thomas Pugh. "Why Is Everybody Laughin? Roth, Coover, and Meta-Comic Narrative." Critique 35 (1994): 67-80.
Barbara Koenig Quart. "The Rapacity of One Nearly Buried Alive." The Massachusetts Review 24 (1983): 590-608.
Jonathan Raban. "The New Philip Roth." Novel 2 (1969): 153-63.
Norman Ravvin. "Strange Presences on teh Family Tree: The Unacknowldged Literary Father in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy." English Studies in Canada 17 (1991): 197-207.
Derek Rubin. "Philip Roth and Nathan Zuckerman: Offences of the Imagination." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 13 (1983): 42-54.
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky. "Honor Thy Rather." Raritan 11 (1992): 137-45.
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky. "Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer: Literary Heritage and Jewish Irreverence." Studies in American Jewish Literature 8 (1989): 168-85.
Kathy Rugoff. "Humor and the Muse in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer." Studies in American Humor ns 4 (1985-86): 242-48.
Elizabeth Sabiston. "A New Fabel for Critics: Philip Roth's The Breast." International Fiction Review 2 (1975): 27-34.
George J. Searles. "The Mouths of Babes: Childhood Epiphany in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews' and Updike's 'Pigeon Feathers.'" Studies in Short Fiction 24 (1987): 59-62.
George J. Searles. "Philip Roth's 'Kafka': A 'Jeu-ish American' Fiction of the First Order." Yiddish 4:4 (1982): 5-11.
Mark Shechner. "Philip Roth." Partisan Review 41 (1974): 410-27.
Mark Shechner. "Zuckerman's Travels." American Literary History 1 (1989): 219-30.
Wilfred Sheed. "Howe's Complaint." New York Times Book Review 6 May 1973: 2.
Ben Siegel. "The Myths of Summer: Philip Roth's The Great American Novel." Contemporary Literature 17 (1976): 171-90.
Elliott M. Simon. "Philip Roth's 'Eli, the Fanatic': The Color of Blackness." Yiddish 7:4 (1990): 39-48.
Naomi Sokoloff. "Imagining Israel in American Jewish Fiction: Anne Roiphe's Lovingkindness and Philip Roth's The Counterlife." Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 65-80.
Theodore Solotaroff. "The Journey of Philip Roth." Atlantic April 1969: 64-72.
Theodore Solotaroff. "Philip Roth and the Jewish Moralists." Chicago Review 13 (1959): 87-99.
Eric Solomon. "The Gnomes of Academe: Philip Roth and the University." The American Writer and the University. Ed. Ben Siegel. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. 68-87.
Janis P. Stout. "The Misogyny of Roth's The Great American Novel." Ball State University Forum 27:1 (1986): 72-75.
Paul Strong. "Firing into the Dark: Sexual Warfare in Portnoy's Complaint." International Fiction Review 10 (1983): 41-43.
Tony Tanner. "Fictionalized Recall--or 'The Settling of Scores! The Pursuit of Dreams!'" City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper and Row, 1971: 295-321.
Samuel J. Tindall. "'Flinging a Shot Put' in Philip Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" ANQ 2 (1989): 58-60.
Adeline R. Tintner. "Adventures in Life and Fiction." Midstream 33:6 (1987): 55-56.
Adeline R. Tintner. "Henry James as Roth's Ghost Writer." Midstream March (1981): 48-51.
Adeline R. Tintner. "Hiding behind James: Roth's Zuckerman Unbound." Midstream 28:4 (1982): 49-53.
Adeline R. Tintner. "The Prague Orgy: Roth Still Bound to Henry James." Midstream 31:10 (1985): 49-51.
Adeline R. Tintner. "Roth's 'Pain' and James' 'Obscure Hurt.'" Midstream 31:3 (1985): 58-60.
Darryl Tippens. "The Shechinah Theme in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews." Christianity and Literature 35 (1986): 13-20.
Stanley Trachtenberg. "In the Egosphere: Philip Roth's Anti-Bildungsroman." Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 326-41.
Kermit Vanderbilt. "Writers of the Troubled Sixties." Nation 17 Dec. 1973: 661-65.
James D. Wallace. "'This Nation of Narrators': Transgression, Revenge and Desire in Zuckerman Bound." Modern Language Studies 21 (1991): 17-34.
Barbara Frey Waxman. "Jewish American Princesses, Their Mothers, and Feminist Psychology: A Rereading of Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 7 (1988): 90-104.
Stephen J. Whitfield. "Comic Echoes of Kafka." American Humor 9 (1982): 1-5.
Stephen J. Whitfield. "Laughter in the Dark: Notes on American-Jewish Humor." Midstream Feb. (1978): 48-58.
Matthew Wilson. "Fathers and Sons in History: Philip Roth's The Counterlife." Prooftexts 11 (1991): 41-56.
Matthew Wilson. "The Ghost Writer: Kafka, Het Achterhuis, and History." Studies in American Jewish Literature 10 (1991): 44-53.
Hana Wirth-Nesher. "The Artist Tales of Philip Roth." Prooftexts 3 (1983): 263-72.
Ruth Wisse. "Requiem in Several Voices." The Schlemiel as Modern Hero. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. 118-23.
Geoffrey Wolff. "Beyond Portnoy." Newsweek 3 Aug. 1970: 66-67.
Mark E. Workman. "The Serious Consequences of Ethnic Humor in Portnoy's Complaint." Midwest Folklore 13.7 (1987): 16-26.

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