The campaign to cancel the author is typical of today’s all-or-nothing approach, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, you can’t like anything
She was given her big break by Charlie Chaplin and worked with Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier. Claire Bloom talks about her rise to fame and reading her ex-husband Philip Roth’s work
The comedy veteran does his best with the material, playing a grieving widower who discovers his wife’s secret affair, but it’s hard to dress up a turkey
As he celebrates his 75th birthday, novelist Philip Roth talks to Robert McCrum about losing friends, living alone and why the next book will be his last
Creative genius, bitter critic, misogynist... Whatever you think of Philip Roth there's no doubt he's one of the world's most brilliant writers and that age has not mellowed him. His new novel is his most political - and personal - yet.
An intensely private man, Philip Roth is one of America's greatest writers. He is dedicated, even obsessive, about his work but loathes the fame that attends it. After spells in eastern Europe and the UK, his return to New York marked a period of creative renewal as he reflected on the US through the lens of history. His latest novel revisits - and reimagines - his childhood.
A clip from 80,000 Suspects, a tense 1963 thriller about an epidemic sweeping south-west England, directed by British thriller maestro Val Guest
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