Philip Roth

Technological revolutions always get some people thinking about what we are losing by discarding the old technology, rather than what we gain with the new. As my Sunday column observes, this process is already taking place with the advent of......

One thing to know about our book club: About 58 years ago a group of female friends, all avid readers, decided it would be enjoyable to select a book each month and discuss it. The idea took hold and The Book Club was founded. Through the years...

One thing to know about your book group: This is more literature seminar than coffee klatch. That's partly because the books are so challenging (“A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” by Marina Lewycka?) and partly because our leader,...

National Medal of Arts, Humanities winners include Streep, Quincy Jones, James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Van Cliburn and Philip Roth...

President Barack Obama presented the National Medal of Arts to Robert Brustein during a White House ceremony today, citing his contribution to the American theater and to the development of theater artists. The citation read at the East Room ceremony as...

The new National Medal of Arts & Humanities Medal honorees include writers Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth and poets Donald Hall and Wendell Berry....

The five finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction were announced Wednesday, and included National Book Award winner "Lords of Misrule" by Jaimy Gordon. Southern California writer Eric Puchner's "Model Home" is the only other traditionally...

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's CEO Barry O'Callaghan has resigned....

Somewhere in New York this week, Bill Ryan might be found standing in line after an author's reading, waiting his turn for a few words and a signature. While some people get nervous waiting to speak to an author, Ryan......

The Man Booker International Prize finalists include Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth and Anne Tyler....

John Le Carre stirs controversy trying to withdraw from consideration for the Booker Prize International. The judges say he's still on the list....

A judge withdraws from the Man Booker International Prize jury when the award goes to Philip Roth. "He goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book," she says. "It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe.".....