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Blake Bailey upheld Philip Roths legacy in the worst way A best-selling biography of a misogynist, written by an alleged abuser, is almost too apt a metaphor. The cycle of letting bad men write about bad men has to stop.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images May 5, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC "Always it came back to the women," Blake Bailey wrote of novelist (and noted misogynist) Philip Roth in his best-selling biography of Roths life. For Bailey, too, it seems, it ultimately came back to the women. At the e...

The fall of the intellectual Where have all the great thinkers gone?   In the month before it was pulled by its publisher because of its author’s alleged sexual predations, Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth produced an outpouring of terrifically entertaining reviews in the literary pages of East Coast periodicals – the New Republic, Harper’s and the New Yorker. The essays were a lot of fun; they were also implicitly nostalgic for the novelistic world that Roth so egomaniaca...

Writers, biographers protest W.W. Norton’s decision to “permanently” remove Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth from print On April 27, publisher W.W. Norton announced it was “permanently” removing Blake Bailey’s biography of American novelist Philip Roth (1933–2018) from print. Several individuals have accused Bailey of sexual wrongdoing, including rape. None of them have come forward with any evidence to back up the claims. Blake Bailey, 2011 (Photo: David Shankbone) We ar...

Porsha Williams revealed spicy details about what happened in the Dungeon on Sundays second reunion episode of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. The 39-year-old actress and activist had long been coy about what went down during Cynthia Baileys scandalous bachelorette party during season 13. It was rumored that she had enjoyed a threesome with hired stripper Bolo and her friend Tanya Sam, 42, who then disappeared from the season. Bachelorette details: Porsha Williams revealed spicy details about ...

Suzanne Harrington: Cancel culture literally cancels culture, it sucks It’s immature, it stifles debate, it nails shut the lids of our echo chambers Cancel culture is unsustainable, and frankly a bit stupid. Can we cancel it? Mon, 03 May, 2021 - 17:46 So here we are again with cancel culture. Turns out that not only was Philip Roth, the 20th-century literary giant, a raging misogynist but that his latest biographer, Blake Bailey, has recently been accused of sexually assaulting two women. No...

Philip Roth on 2005 Credit: AP The first major biographical work on Philip Roth portrayed one of America’s greatest novelists as a borderline-sociopathic philanderer. It was hardly an impartial book but it certainly had a claim to insider knowledge. The author was Roth’s estranged wife, the actress Claire Bloom. The publication of Bloom’s Leaving a Doll’s House in 1996 galvanised Roth into launching a search for an official biographer: somebody who would give readers the facts of Roth�...

Novelist Charles Yu brings his "Interior Chinatown" to the L.A. Times Book Club on May 27.

To me, the much-repeated claim that the task of keeping Carrie placated influences our Prime Ministers decisions seems unbelievable. Can this really be true? Is the most powerful man in the country, Boris, the original alpha male, so nervous about his fiancee throwing a wobbly that he makes not only domestic but professional choices based on swerving the pots and pans she might chuck his way? His appointment of Allegra Stratton as the face and voice of Downing Street communications was reported...

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April 30, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Philip Roth in 2018, a few months before his death.Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times By Ruth Franklin Ms, Franklin is the author of a biography of the writer Shirley Jackson. In “The Aspern Papers,” the Henry James novella of literary obsession, a biographer becomes fixated on a stash of secret letters belonging to an elderly woman who was once his subject’s girlfriend. Abandoning all his moral scruples, he persuades her to take him in as her t...