Tag: Philip Roth

The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.

From Elisa Albert’s acclaimed 2006 collection, the infamous short story that turned Philip Roth’s playbook inside out.

Sometimes death takes a torturously slow, scenic route.

A mistake on a Wikipedia entry for one of his novels leads an author to set the record straight: My novel ‘The Human Stain’ was described in the entry as ‘allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.’ (The precise language has since been altered by Wikipedia’s collaborative editing, but this falsity still […]