PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT should do for novelist Philip Roth what Levy's advertisements did for Jewish rye. Not that it has ever been necessary for one to be Jewish in order to like Roth. When compared ...

(JTA) — I never did anything like that with liver, but when I read “Portnoy’s Complaint,” I knew ... non-Jewish women and lust — by Philip Roth, who died Tuesday at 85.

Philip Roth was white — and Jewish ... the bestselling author whose books "Goodbye Columbus" and "Portnoy's Complaint" were the stuff of cocktail party chatter, and the basis for Hollywood ...

While literary anti-heroes existed long before Philip Roth, let alone today’s “prestige TV” and Oscar-bait studio-indie films, Roth’s most famous and award-winning book besides Portnoy ...

The Big Book Look for Great Man Fiction. Novelist Philip Roth has died at age 85 Roth was one of the giants of 20th century literature whose novels include Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral ...

On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth, “This Is My God” by Herman Wouk ...

NEW YORK — Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of Portnoy’s Complaint to the elegiac lyricism of American ...