Obituary: Philip Roth was one of America’s greatest novelists – his real subject was not Jewishness, or New Jersey, but the human condition
OBITUARY WRITTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST: IF THERE is one detail of Philip Roth’s biography that is worth knowing, it is not that he was Jewish or that he had no children or that he was born in New Jersey—it is that he preferred to write standing up at a lectern. There are pages of…