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The Philip Roth Society

The Official Home of the Philip Roth Society and the journal, Philip Roth Studies

"Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends." -- Philip Roth

Ira Nadel names his five favorite Roth novels

Ira Nadel names his five favorite Roth novels

In a new interview, Nadel discusses his favorite Roth novels. What's your five? Read more here: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/best-phi...

Newark Public Library Announcing Philip Roth Book Club

Newark Public Library Announcing Philip Roth Book Club

Portnoy Down Under

Portnoy Down Under

A fascinating story of an illegal copy of Portnoy's Complaint in Australia featured in today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/book...

Kaplan reviews Ira Nadel's Roth bio

Kaplan reviews Ira Nadel's Roth bio

Society member Brett Ashley Kaplan recently published a review of Ira Nadel's, Philip Roth: A Counterlife, in Cercles. It can be read...

Featured Posts

Society Member Ira Nadel featured on Biography Society Blog

Society Member Ira Nadel featured on Biography Society Blog

CFP: Special Issue, Philip Roth Studies (18.1, Spring 2022), “Roth and Judaism"

CFP: Special Issue, Philip Roth Studies (18.1, Spring 2022), “Roth and Judaism"

2020 Philip Roth Lecture to Feature Tracy K. Smith

2020 Philip Roth Lecture to Feature Tracy K. Smith

2020 Siegel McDaniel Award for Graduate Research on Philip Roth

2020 Siegel McDaniel Award for Graduate Research on Philip Roth

Webinar on Plot Against America

Webinar on Plot Against America

Society Member David Hadar Releases New Book

Society Member David Hadar Releases New Book

Blake Bailey's Bio of Roth to Arrive This Spring

Blake Bailey's Bio of Roth to Arrive This Spring

Newark Public Library Hosting Virtual Roundtable on Nemesis.

Newark Public Library Hosting Virtual Roundtable on Nemesis.

Newark Public Library: A Virtual Conversation with Ben Taylor--New Info

Newark Public Library: A Virtual Conversation with Ben Taylor--New Info

Upcoming Zoom Discussion on The Plot Against America--May 13th

Upcoming Zoom Discussion on The Plot Against America--May 13th

Recent Posts

Reminder: Upcoming Virtual Event Roth Studies and the Philip Roth Personal Library

CFP--Reading Roth with Empathy

Siegel McDaniel CFP--Submissions due December 15th

Reminder: Upcoming Virtual Event Roth Studies and the Philip Roth Personal Library

Philip Roth Lecture Announced!

Essay on Rereading Roth after 10/7

Nominations due Friday, August 23 for Roth Society Board

Roth Society at ALA

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