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Writer-director talks about adapting Roth’s ‘Indignation’

“Indignation,” the new movie based on a novel by the immortal Philip Roth, opens with a skirmish in Korea in 1951 and ends with a scene so shocking that I cannot reveal it here, although readers of the book will know what’s coming.

Philip Roth’s warning

Slightly more than a decade ago, Philip Roth warned how fascism would come to America – legally, of course, since we’re a nation of laws, and attached to a hero, a legend, a star: the aviator ex machina himself, Charles Lindbergh, since Roth was writing about the U.S. in the late 30’s and early 40s, the years when Lucky Lindy’s popularity peaked.

From dark deprecation to ‘Suddenly, Love’

Back in 1988, no less august an observer than Philip Roth described the authorial voice of esteemed Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld as one “that originates in a wounded consciousness pitched somewhere between amnesia and memory, and that situates the fiction it narrates midway between parable and history.”

Jersey boy ponders his home state’s governor

I was once a Jersey boy. I grew up in Nutley, N.J., just about 20 minutes from Manhattan. I still wear my T-shirt from Rutt’s Hut in Clifton, N.J. — known to many as the maker of the best hot dog in America.

Philip Roth named Booker Prize winner

Jewish author Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize for the body of work in his more than 50-year-long career. The biennial award to be presented in June in London to Roth, 78, was announced Wednesday. The author of the widely read and controversial \”Potnoy\’s Complaint\” has also won two National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

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