The human stained - Philip Roth's uneventful turmoil | Books & arts
W.W. Norton; 912 pages; $40. Jonathan Cape; £30 P HILIP ROTH insisted he wasn’t a Jewish novelist. This was a strange protestation for an author whose subjects include overbearing Jewish parents and rebellious sons, circumcision, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the diasporic condition (as well as unexpected uses for kosher liver). Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Nor, he maintained, was he an autobiographical one. Yet from first to last, Roth’s stories circle back to the corner of New Jersey where he grew up. He spent years trying to find a fictional ...