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Philip Roth's Indignation and the Question of Literary ArtPhilip Roth writes with what can be called a "counter aesthetic," often choosing prurient subject matter and writing with great verve and attitude but not about ideas as such. Can we call his writing art?
Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America' Creates Alternate, Anti-Semetic U.S. HistoryThis is a book review of Philip Roth's 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh becomes president and starts a wave of anti-Semitic prejudice in the U.S.- The Plot Against America Reaction Piece: What is History?The Plot Against America deals with a lot of different topics. One of them is History and this article deals with the definition of history from the perspective of two characters.
- The Human Stain by Philip RothThe book opens in New England in the late 1990s-at a time when the country was stunned by a Presidential scandal and when conservatism, morality and political-correctness were beginning to take hold of the nation's consciousness.
- Book Review: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip RothThis is an odd book. Yet, highly entertaining as long as excessive sexual details don't deter you.
