The 39 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2025
Here are the 39 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in December 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
Tagged: Philip Roth
What Would Philip Roth Do? by Matthew Check
Not Your Typical Boy-Meets-Girl Boy-Loses-Shiksa Story Welcome to the brain of Matt Check. Here you’ll find thoughts of bluegrass music, unrequited love, modern-day Nazis and uncircumcised penises. “Ugh, smegma,” as he likes to say....
Understanding Philip Roth by Matthew A. Shipe
Understanding Contemporary American Literature A panoramic and accessible guide to one of the most celebrated―and controversial―authors of the twentieth century Philip Roth was one of the most prominent, controversial, and prolific American writers of...
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography by Jacques Berlinerblau
Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial. From his first book, Roth scandalized literary society as he questioned Jewish identity and sexual politics in postwar America. Scrutiny and fierce rebukes of the...
Holocaust Literature: An Introduction by Leonard Orr
Helping students navigate a full range of texts, concepts and debates, this is a comprehensive introduction to the vast and emotionally charged field of Holocaust Literature from 1933 to the present. Holocaust Literature: An...
Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel
This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography...
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 by Philip Roth
Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath’s Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986),...
