Philip Roth bibliography
This is a bibliography of works by and about Philip Roth .
Novels, novellas and memoirs
^ I The Nathan Zuckerman appearing in this book is not the same as the one appearing in later books, but a creation of the fictional writer Peter Tarnopol.
Short stories and reviews
Title
Original publication
Collected in:
Philosophy, or Something Like That
Et Cetera , May 1952
The Box of Truths
Et Cetera , October 1952
The Fence
Et Cetera , May 1953
Armando and the Frauds
Et Cetera , October 1953
The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn
Et Cetera , May 1954
The Day It Snowed
Chicago Review , 8, 1954
The Contest for Aaron Gold
Epoch , 5–6, 1955
You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
Commentary , 1957
Goodbye, Columbus
Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue
Chicago Review , 11, 1957
Mrs. Lindbergh, Mr. Ciardi, and the Teeth and Claws of the Civilized World
Chicago Review , 11, 1957
Rescue from Philosophy
The New Republic , 10 June 1957
I Don't Want to Embarrass You
The New Republic , 15 July 1957
The Hurdles of Satire
The New Republic , 9 September 1957
Coronation on Channel Two
The New Republic , 23 September 1957
Films as Sociology
The New Republic , 21 October 1957
The Proper Study of Show Business
The New Republic , 23 December 1957
The Conversion of the Jews
The Paris Review , Spring 1958
Goodbye, Columbus
Epstein
The Paris Review , Summer 1958
Goodbye, Columbus
Heard Melodies Are Sweeter
Esquire , August 1958
Expect the Vandals
Esquire , December 1958
The Kind of Person I am
The New Yorker , 29 November 1958
Defender of the Faith
The New Yorker , March 1959
Goodbye, Columbus
Eli, the Fanatic
Goodbye, Columbus
Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope
Harper's Magazine , July 1959
The Love Vessel
The Dial , 1, 1959
The Good Girl
Cosmopolitan , May 1960
The Mistaken
American Judaism , 10, 1960
Jewishness and the Younger Intellectuals
Commentary , April 1961
American Fiction
Commentary , September 1961
Novotny's Pain
The New Yorker , October 1962
A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.)
Iowa: A Very Far Country Indeed,
Esquire , December 1962
Philip Roth Talks to Teens
Seventeen , April 1963
Second Dialogue in Israel
Congress Bi-Weekly , 16 September 1963
Psychoanalytic Special
Esquire , November 1963
An Actor's Life for Me
Playboy , January 1964
Channel X: Two Plays on the Race Conflict
The New York Review of Books , 28 May 1964
The National Pastime
Cavalier , May 1965
Seasons of Discontent
The New York Review of Books , 7 November 1965
Jewish Blues
New American Review , 1, 1967
On the Air
New American Review , 10, 1970
Looking at Kafka
New American Review , 1973
A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.)
Imagining Jews
The New York Review of Books , 1974
In Search of Kafka and Other Answers
The New York Times Book Review , 15 February 1976
Dialog: Philip Roth
Chicago Tribune , 25 September 1977
His Mistress's Voice
Partisan Review , 53, 1986
Smart Money
The New Yorker , February 1981
Part of Zuckerman Unbound
I Couldn't Restrain Myself
The New York Times Book Review , 21 June 1992
A Bit of Jewish Mischief
The New York Times Book Review , 7 March 1993
Dr. Huvelle: A Biographical Sketch
1993
34-page booklet
Juice or Gravy? How I Met My Fate in a Cafeteria
The New York Times Book Review , 18 September 1994
The Ultimatum
The New Yorker , 26 June 1995
Part of Sabbath's Theater
Drenka's Men
The New Yorker , 10 July 1995
Part of Sabbath's Theater
Communist: Oh, Ma, Let Me Join the National Guard
The New Yorker , August 1998
Part of I Married a Communist
Essays
Title
Originally published in
Collected in
Country Report: Czechoslovakia
American PEN , 1973
Introduction to Milan Kundera , Edward and God
American Poetry Review , March/April 1974
Introduction to Jiří Weil , Two Stories about Nazis and Jews
American Poetry Review , September/October 1974
Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz
The New York Times Book Review , 1976
Shop Talk
Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera
The New York Times Book Review , 1980
Shop Talk
Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien
The New York Times Book Review , 1984
Shop Talk
Pictures of Malamud
The New York Times Book Review , 1986
Shop Talk
A Man Saved by His Skills. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi
The New York Times Book Review , 12 October 1986
Shop Talk
Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld
The New York Times Book Review , 1988
Shop Talk
Pictures of Guston
Vanity Fair , 1989
Shop Talk
Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma
The New York Times Book Review , 1990
Shop Talk
An Exchange with Mary McCarthy
The New Yorker , 1998
Shop Talk
Rereading Saul Bellow
The New Yorker , 2000
Shop Talk
Collections
Title
Year
Works Included
Reading Myself and Others
1976
Anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism
A Philip Roth Reader
1980; 2nd ed. 1993
Selections from Roth's first eight novels; 2nd edition includes Novotny's Pain and Looking at Kafka
Zuckerman Bound
1985
The Ghost Writer Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson The Prague Orgy
Shop Talk
2001
Roth's interviews with 20th-century writers
Library of America editions
The first nine volumes are edited by Ross Miller, the last by the author himself.
Title
Year
Works Included
Novels and Stories 1959–1962
2005
Goodbye, Columbus Letting Go
Novels 1967–1972
2005
When She Was Good Portnoy's Complaint Our Gang The Breast
Novels 1973–1977
2006
The Great American Novel My Life As a Man The Professor of Desire
Zuckerman Bound 1979–1985
2007
The Ghost Writer Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson The Prague Orgy unproduced television screenplay for The Prague Orgy
Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991
2008
The Counterlife The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography Deception Patrimony: A True Story
Novels 1993–1995
2010
Operation Shylock Sabbath's Theater
American Trilogy 1997–2000
2011
American Pastoral I Married a Communist The Human Stain
Novels 2001–2007
2013
The Dying Animal The Plot Against America Exit Ghost
Nemeses
2013
Everyman Indignation The Humbling Nemesis
Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013
2017
Roth's selection from Reading Myself and Others (1975)Shop Talk (2001)Explanations (14 later pieces) (total 37 articles or essays)
Adaptations
Roth's adaptations of works by others
Roth's adaptations of his own work
TV Adaptation of The Ghost Writer (in collaboration with Tristram Powell ), 1984
TV Adaptation of The Prague Orgy (unproduced), 1985
Adaptations of Roth's work by others
Interviews
interviewer
Title
Originally published in
Notes
Martha McGregor
The NBA Winner Talks Back
1960
in George J. Searles (ed.), Conversations with Philip Roth (Jackson, U.P. of Mississippi, 1992)
Jerre Mangione
Philip Roth
1966
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Philip Roth Tells about When She Was Good
Literary Guild Magazine , July 1967
Howard Junker
Will This Finally Be Philip Roth's Year?
1969
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Albert Goldman
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Looms as a Wild Blue Shocker and the American Novel of the Sixties
1969
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
George Plimpton
Philip Roth's Exact Intent
1969
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Alan Lelchuk
On Satirizing Presidents
1971
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Walter Clemons
Joking in the Square
1971
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Alan Lelchuk
On The Breast
1972
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Joyce Carol Oates
A Conversation with Philip Roth
Ontario Review , Fall 1974
Martha Saxton
Philip Roth Talks about His Own Work
1974
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Walter Mauro
Writing and the Powers-that-Be
1974
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Sara Davidson
Talk with Philip Roth
1977
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
James Atlas
A Visit with Philip Roth
1979
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Michiko Kakutani
Is Roth Really Writing about Roth?
New York Times , May 1981
Richard Stern
Roth Unbound
Saturday Review , June 1981
Alan Finkielkraut
The Ghosts of Roth
1981
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Ronald Hayman
Philip Roth: Should Sane Women Shy Away from Him at Parties?
1981
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
The Book That I'm Writing
New York Times , 12 June 1983, late ed.
Cathleen Medwick
A Meeting of Arts and Minds
1983
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Jonathan Brent
"The job", says Roth, "was to give pain its due"
1983
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Jesse Kornbluth
Zuckerman Found? Philip Roth's One-Man Art Colony
1983
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
David Plante
Conversations with Philip: Diary of a Friendship
1984
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Hermione Lee
The Art of Fiction , LXXXIV
1984
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Clive Sinclair
Doctor or Pornographer? Clive Sinclair Talks to Philip Roth about His New Book ,
1984
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Mervyn Rothstein
The Unbounded Spirit of Philip Roth
New York Times , 1 August 1985
Ian Hamilton
A Confusion of Realms
1985
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Mervyn Rothstein
Philip Roth and the World of «What If?»
1986
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Paula Span
Roth's Zuckerman Redux; for «The Counterlife», Leading His Altered Ego through Life, Death and Renewal
Washington Post , 6 January 1987
Paul Gray
The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth
1987
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Alvin P. Sanoff
Writers Have a Third Eye
1987
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Katharine Weber
Life, Counterlife
1987
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Ken Adachi
Is Anyone out There Actually Reading?
Toronto Star , 17 September 1988
Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson
An Interview with Philip Roth
1988
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Jonathan Brent
What Facts? A Talk with Philip Roth
1988
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Katharine Weber
PW Interviews: Philip Roth
1988
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Linda Matchan
Philip Roth Faces "The Facts"
1988
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Mervyn Rothstein
From Philip Roth, "The Facts" as He Remembers Them
1988
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Goodbye Newark: Roth Remembers His Beginnings
New York Times , 1 October 1989
Brian D. Johnson
Intimate Affairs
1990
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Hermione Lee
"Life Is and": Philip Roth in 1990
1990
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Alvin P. Sanoff
Facing a Father's Death
1990
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Lynn Darling
His Father's Son
Newsday , 28 January 1991
Lynn Darling
A Moving Family Memoir on Life and Death in «Patrimony»
1991
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Mervyn Rothstein
To Newark, with Love. Philip Roth
1991
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Molly McQuade
Just a Lively Boy
1991
in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit.
Marjorie Keyishian
Roth Returning to Newark to Get History Award
New York Times , 4 October 1992
Esther B. Fein
Philip Roth Sees Double. And Maybe Triple, Too
New York Times , 9 March 1993
Esther B. Fein
"Believe Me," Says Roth with a Straight Face
New York Times , 9 March 1993 late ed.
Dan Cryer
Talking with Philip Roth: Author Meets the Critics
Newsday , 28 March 1993
Mifflin Houghton
I Married a Communist Interview
1998
link
Christa Maerker
The Roth Explosion: Confessions of a Writer
1998
film (duration: 53')
Charles McGrath
Zuckerman's Alter Brain
New York Times Book Review , 7 May 2000
Terry Gross
Interview
Fresh Air (radio), 8 May 2000
afterward in Fresh Air: Writers Speak with Terry Gross , Minneapolis: Highbridge, 2004; and in Writers Speak: A Collection of Interviews with Writers on Fresh Air with Terry Gross , Boston: WHYY, 2004
Robert McCrum
A Conversation with Philip Roth
Guardian Unlimited , 1 July 2001
link
David Remnick
Philip Roth at 70
BBC4, London , 19 March 2003
Robert Siege
Roth Rewrites History with "The Plot Against America"
"All Things Considered" (radio), 23 September 2004
WNYC, New York
John Freeman
The America That Was, and the Past That Wasn't
San Francisco Chronicle , 3 October 2004
link
"NPR Interview with Philip Roth"
NPR's Fresh Air, 11 October 2004
link
Jeffrey Brown
Interview
«News Hour with Jim Lehrer», PBS, 27 October 2004 and 10 November 2004
Kurt Anderson
Interview
«Studio 360», 6 November 2004
WNYC, New York
Katie Couric
Interview
«Today Show», NBC, 2004
Tom Ashbrook
Novelist Philip Roth
«On Point», 3 December 2004
WBUR, Boston
Michael Krasny
Interview
Forum , 29 December 2004
KQED, San Francisco
Nils Minkmar
Interview
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , 8 August 2005
in German
Sacha Verna
Ich frage, was wäre...
Die Zeit , 18 August 2005
in German
Charles McGrath
Why Is This Man Smiling?
New York Times , 4 September 2005, late ed.
Martin Krasnik
It No Longer Feels a Great Injustice That I Have to Die
The Guardian , 14 December 2005
link
Terry Gross
Philip Roth Discusses His Latest Accolade
«Fresh Air», 28 December 2005
WHYY, Philadelphia on link
Charles McGrath
Philip Roth, Haunted by Illness, Feels Fine
New York Times , 25 April 2006
Robert Siege
Roth Returns with Life and Death of Everyman
«All Things Considered», 2 May 2006
Terry Gross
Philip Roth Discusses Everyman
«Fresh Air», 8 May 2006
WHYY, Philadelphia
Mark Lawson
Philip Roth’s 21st Century
«Mark Lawson Talks to...», BBC4, London , 3 June 2006
Volker Hage
Old Age Is a Massacre
Spiegel Online , 25 August 2006
Hans Olav Brenner
Interview
Bokprogrammet NRK1, 27 August 2007
NBC
John Freeman
Philip Roth Ponders Aging
«Star-Ledger» [Newark, NJ], 23 September 2007
Robert Siegel
Author Says New Zuckerman Novel to Be the Last
«All Things Considered», 24 September 2007
link
Terry Gross
Philip Roth's «Ghost» Returns
«Fresh Air», 25 September 2007
WHYY, Philadelphia
Hillel Italie
Roth Says Farewell to Fictional Hero
«Associated Press Archive», 27 September 2007
on link (20 March 2009)
Robert J. Hughes
Roth Says: Goodbye, Nathan
«Wall Street Journal », 28 September 2007
link
Mark Weitzmann
In Conversation...
Washington Post , 30 September 2007
link
James Mustich
Roth on Zuckerman's Curtain Call
«Barnes & Noble Review», 1 October 2007
Hermione Lee
Age Makes a Difference
«The New Yorker », 1 October 2007
link and link
Mark Lawson
Philip Roth in His Own Words
«Front Row», Radio 4. BBC, London, 2 October 2007 and The Independent , London, 3 October 2007
link
Johanna Schneller
Philip Roth: «I'm not crazy... that time is running out»
The Globe and Mail Canada, 13 October 2007
link
Tom Nissley
Exit Zuckerman: An Interview with Philip Roth
No date [but 2007] on Amazon site
transcript of audio interview
Klaus Brinkbäumer and Volker Hage
Bush Is Too Horrendous to Be Forgotten
Spiegel Online , 8 February 2008
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
Philip Roth Goes Back to College
The Wall Street Journal , 12 September 2008
James Marcus
Philip Roth, on Writing and Being Ticked Off
Los Angeles Times , 14 September 2008
link
Robert Siege
In Indignation, Roth Draws On His College Days
«All Things Considered», 15 September 2008
link
Philip Dodd
Interview
«Night Waves», 15 September 2008
BBC Radio 3
Benjamin Taylor
Interview
Live Webcast Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin, 16 September 2008
Robert Hilferty
Interview
«Muse TV», 19 September 2008
link and link
Robert McCrum
The Story of My Lives
Observer Magazine , 21 September 2008
link
Jeff Baker
Interview
The Oregonian , 21 September 2008
Edited and condensed interview. Full version is on link (18 September 2008)
James Mustich
Philip Roth: Indignation
«Barnes & Noble Review», 3 November 2008
link
Andrew Corsello
Last Lion Roaring
Gentlemen's Quarterly , December 2008
Tina Brown
Philip Roth Unbound
The Daily Beast , 21 October 2009
link
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
Roth on Roth
Wall Street Journal , 23 October 2009
link
Kirsty Wark
Interview
Newsnight , BBC2, London, 30 October 2009
link
Paola Zanuttini
Sex and Me
La Repubblica , February 2010
Italian interview. Notice by Judith Thurman on The New Yorker , 5 April 2010
Rita Braver
Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God
CBS News , 10 March 2010
link
Chris Wragge and Erica Hill
A Rare Look at Author Phillip Roth
CBS News , 3 October 2010
link
Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging and «Nemesis»
NPR, 14 October 2010
link
Benjamin Taylor
Man Booker International Prize 2011 Winner Philip Roth
23 May 2011
link video transcript
Eleanor Wachtel
Philip Roth Interview
CBC Radio, 27 March 2011
link
Criticism
Glenn Meeter, Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth: A Critical Essay , Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 1968
John N. McDaniel, The Fiction of Philip Roth , Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974
Sanford Pinsker, The Comedy That "Hoits": An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth , Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1975
Bernard F. Rodgers Jr., Philip Roth , Boston: Twayne, 1978
Judith Paterson Jones e Guinevera A. Nance, Philip Roth , New York: Ungar, 1981
Sanford Pinsker (ed.), Critical Essays on Philip Roth , Boston: Hall, 1982
Herminone Lee, Philip Roth , New York: Methuen, 1982
George J. Searles, The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike , Carbondale: Southern Illinois U.P., 1985
Harold Bloom (ed.), Philip Roth , Modern Critical Views, New York: Chelsea House, 1986; new ed. 2003
Asher Z. Milbauer e Donald G. Watson (eds.), Reading Philip Roth , New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988
Murray Baumgarten e Barbara Gottfried, Understanding Philip Roth , Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990
Jay L. Halio, Philip Roth Revisited , New York: Twayne, 1992
Alan Cooper, Philip Roth and the Jews , Albany: SUNY Press, 1996
Stephen Wade, Imagination in Transit: The Fiction of Philip Roth , Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996
Stephen Milowitz, Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer , New York: Garland Press, 2000
Jay L. Halio (ed.), Philip Roth , special issue of Shofar , 19, 1, 2000
Nandita Singh, Philip Roth: A Novelist in Crisis , New Delhi: Classical Publishing, 2001
André Bleikasten, Philip Roth: Les ruses de la fiction , Paris: Belin, 2001
Paule Lévy e Ada Savin (eds.), Profils Américains: Philip Roth , Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III: CERCLA, 2002
Mark Shechner, Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth , Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
Debra Shostak, Philip Roth - Countertexts, Counterlives , Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004
Harold Bloom (ed.), Portnoy's Complaint: Modern Critical Interpretations , Modern Critical Views, New York: Chelsea House, 2004
Derek Parker Royal (ed.), Philip Roth's America: The Later Novels , special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature , 23, 2004
Yanyu Zeng, Towards Postmodern Multiculturalism: A New Trend of African-American and Jewish American Literature Viewed through Ishmael Reed and Philip Roth , Xiamen: Xiamen U.P., 2004
Manuel Gogos, Philip Roth & Söhne: Zum jüdischen Familienroman , Hamburg: Philo, 2005
Jay L. Halio e Ben Siegel, Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth's Later Novels , Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005
Derek Parker Royal (ed.), Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author , Westport, CT: Greenwood-Praeger, 2005
Elaine B. Safer, Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth , Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006
Till Kinzel, Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens: Eine Studie zu Zuckermans Amerika in Philip Roths Amerika-Trilogie , Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2006
Ross Posnock, Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity , Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2006
Dean J. Franco (ed.), Roth and Race , special issue of Philip Roth Studies , 2, 2, 2006
Timothy Parrish (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth , Cambridge U.P., 2007
David Brauner, Philip Roth , Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2007
Aimée Pozorski and Miriam Jaffe-Foger (eds.), Mourning Zuckerman , special issue of Philip Roth Studies , 5, 2, 2009
Balbir Singh, The Early Fiction of Philip Roth New Delhi: Omega Publications, 2009
Alain Finkielkraut , "La Plaisanterie" (on The Human Stain ), in Un coeur intelligent , Paris: Stock/Flammarion, 2009.
Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio (eds.), Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as Comic Writer , Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2010
Alain Finkielkraut , "La complainte du désamour" (on The Professor of Desire ), in Et si l'amour durait Paris: Stock, 2011.
Aimée Pozorski, Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) , New York, NY: Continuum Press, 2012
Sebastian Schmitt, Fifties Nostalgia in Selected Novels of Philip Roth (MOSAIC, 60), Trier, WVT, 2017.
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