Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died on Tuesday... Read More

I first met Philip when I did a small book about him for a series for Methuen in 1982, when he was in the middle of writing the Zuckerman... Read More

Of the three titans of American literature in the late 20th century, Updike, Bellow, and Philip Roth, Roth was the most insistently secular.... Read More

Barbara Ehrenreich cuts an unusual figure in American culture. A prominent radical who never became a liberal, a celebrity, or a reactionary,... Read More

In George Orwell's 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from... Read More

For obvious reasons, interest in the process of impeaching an American president is soaring. But public understanding of what that would... Read More

For James Comey, it was a pivotal moment. The rule of law and the very integrity of the government were, he thought, at stake. The president... Read More

Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World, a finalist for the 1972 National Book... Read More

Bret Easton Ellis is dogged in defending his positions: he is for aesthetics over ideology; freedom of expression, and art that disrupts and... Read More

“I am glad you've read the Heart of D. tho' of course it's an awful fudge,” Joseph Conrad wrote to Roger Casement in late 1903.... Read More

New York careens into the 1990s still the city America most loves to hate, its juxtapositions of wealth and squalor every bit as jarring as... Read More

After Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Corey Robin, a professor of political theory at Brooklyn College, published a second edition of The... Read More