Is Noah Hawley’s ‘Anthem’ the First Great American Pandemic Novel?
Like Philip Roth and Kurt Vonnegut before him, Noah Hawley hopes his novel, Anthem, can compete with reality.
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It Does Happen Here in HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’
The organic growth of everyday American fascism and the understanding that pogroms are not a uniquely European phenomenon is rendered in stark and terrifying detail in David Simon's adaptation of Philip Roth's alternate historical novel, The Plot Against America.
On ‘Love and Strife’, but Mostly the Strife, of Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow has won many literary awards, including the Nobel, Pulitzer, and National Book Award. Yet Zachary Leader's thorough work, The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, a PopMatters pick, begins with Below asking himself, "Was I a man or was I a jerk?"
“We are all Rachel Dolezal”: on Asad Haider’s ‘Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump’
Among other critiques of identity politics, Haider believes that we each can slip between identities at will. Indeed, it's a universal human condition.
How the Nobel Committee and the Great American Read (Among Others) Got Philip Roth Wrong
A sense of bitterness remains for those of us mourning the loss of this final great literary lion of the 20th century.
‘Eastman Was Here’ Is Curious, Assured and Compelling
There's a ghostly suggestion of Philip Roth's writing voice in Portnoy's Complaint in this novel; a relatively calm voice, this time in the third person, documenting the madness.
If the Aim of Literature Is to Spark Debate, Philip Roth Has Succeeded
This sprawling collection of Philip Roth's nonfiction is often insightful, sometimes fascinating, and occasionally overlong.
A Feminist Reads Philip Roth
Thoughts about Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, as brought on by the season six episode of Girls, "American Bitch".