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‘But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime.’

Should it come as a surprise that one of our greatest novelists feels compelled to take time off from writing novels to explore the nature of his (...)

“Roth’s steadfast commitment to the many privileges of male whiteness reliably repels me,” says Hemon, whose new novel is “The World and All That It Holds.” “I also dislike a lot of recent books, but I don’t wish to name them.”

From the blog of Slavica Milosevic at The Times of Israel

Philip Roth 2002 (Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM) The reviews of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography have been pouring out on both sides of the Atlantic. What is striking is how badly written the British ones have been and how smart the American ones are. What makes the British reviews so much worse? First, the bizarre omissions. Tim Adams’s review in The Observer of Bailey’s biography doesn’t use the words “Jew” or “Jewish” once. This is extraordinary. Not only was Roth Jewish, he wrote constantly about Jews, from Anne Frank and Kafka to his own fiction...