In an announcement that mostly escaped American attention, mostly because it was made in French, novelist Philip Roth has quietly called an end to his long writing career, having run out of inspiration now that Jewish people are all uniformly happy and well-adjusted. Or, in a more accurate explanation, now that Roth "no longer feel[s] this fanaticism to write that I have experienced in my life," with the author adding that—upon completion of what will prove to be his final work, 2010's Nemesis—he went back and reread all of his past novels and decided he'd accomplished everything he possibly could with the art form.
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