Articles tagged "philip roth"

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Invisible by Paul Auster

by Michael Antman

[29.Oct.09] :. Paul Auster is a spellbinding storyteller, sometimes thanks to, and other times in spite of, his post-modern narrative trickery.

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New novel takes Philip Roth back to college

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[8.Oct.08] :. Philip Roth excavates and reimagines his life the way Balzac channeled Paris, Dickens reproduced London, and, perhaps most aptly, Heinrich Schliemann dug up Troy—as if his now 75 years...

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The Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus

by Erika Nanes

[14.Feb.08] :. Convinced as I was by Marcus' readings, I couldn't help noticing that the primary subjects of all four chapters were works produced by white men: Philip Roth, David Lynch, Bill Pullmanm and David Thomas.

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Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

by Michael Antman

[8.Oct.07] :. No one can complain that Philip Roth, of all authors, is politically correct, or that he pretends to be something other than his highly sexualized, readily outraged, and coruscatingly intelligent self.

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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella

by Bradford R. Pilcher

[11.Jun.07] :. Acocella's volume represents the hard word of creativity in the embodiment of a critic's perspective and finds something coherent in the chaos of art.

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The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Chris Barsanti

[22.May.07] :. Michael Chabon finally unleashes the genre storyspinner who has been lurking inside him all these years.

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Everyman by Philip Roth

by Steve Shymanik

[23.May.06] :. Everyman is of a piece with Roth's oeuvre and yet somehow distinct and unique.