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Philip Roth Goes Back to Collegenew
One of Portnoy's favorite words takes on new resonance in Roth's 29th novel.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard Beck |
09-24-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Philip Roth, Indignation
Philip Roth's Latest Gives Us a World Caught Between Warsnew
Since 2000, Roth has compressed the thematic dynamism of his masterpieces into tales that can be read in the time it takes you to watch a baseball game. Indignation, his latest bravura performance in the form, is a haunting, bleakly comic time-capsule of a book
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Freeman |
09-19-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Philip Roth, Indignation
Philip Roth Looks Back on a Legendary Career, and Forward to His Final Actnew

The backward-looking, documentary storytelling impulse in Indignation is a continuation of a growing vein of Roth's work in the past decade, books obsessed and possessed by American history.
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Freeman |
09-19-2008 |
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