Philip Roth Comes to Austin... Well, Sort of

Philip Roth to be broadcast in Austin in a live, hourlong interview

"...The ever-prolific Philip Roth will be talking about his new release Indignation..."

Sept. 10, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Listen Up Philip

The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.

"...The up-and-coming young novelist in Listen Up Philip is a black hole of self-absorption – anyone who..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

America Gone Awry

Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says, is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an American.

"...The Human Stain by Philip Roth..."

June 23, 2000 Books Feature by Tom Grimes

American Pastoral

Philip Roth's beloved book hits the screen

"...In Philip Roth’s novel, the “getting them wrong” idea comes courtesy..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Indignation

Philip Roth's 2008 novel is hauntingly translated to the screen

"...Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger and Noah Robbins...."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Human Stain

Despite some terrific moments, Philip Roth's words fail to stick to the screen.

"...near the end of this adaptation of the 1998 Philip Roth novel, a woman named Faunia Farely (Kidman), a..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Elegy

In this smart adaptation of Philip Roth's A Dying Animal, Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz turn the table on the standard May-December romance.

"...wife and son. Kepesh is a recurring character in Philip Roth’s fiction, and Elegy is based on his short..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Plot Against America

'The writing and the ideas here are unimpeachable, and one could hardly question the audacity of the premise,' writes Josh Rosenblatt of Philip Roth's terrifying look at a reimagined America, 'but there is something vital missing'

"...The Plot Against Americaby Philip Roth..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Chaos of Eros

Isabel Coixet's 'Elegy' for a dying animal

"...knows not what it is." – Yeats in Philip Roth's The Dying Animal..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Indignation

Philip Roth's latest is a detail piece rather than a panorama

"...Indignationby Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 256 pp., $26..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Books Review by John Davidson

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...5. Elegy Philip Roth finally gets the film interpretation his work deserves..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

The Bookshop

British period literary drama is pretty weak tea

"...emotional honesty and incisiveness, such as her adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal as Elegy. But in..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley drive a tale of unlikely friendship

"...here, reuniting with the director and co-star of 2008’s Philip Roth adaptation Elegy, one of the last times a..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute

What's crowning Jay Trachtenberg's bedside table

"...contemporary, prim ‘n’ proper England. Sometimes called the “British Philip Roth,” he has apparently had a prolific and distinguished..."

Nov. 1, 2010 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

In the Hopper

Still Easy Riding

"...Prize-winning poet George O'Hearn, without reading the script or Philip Roth's source novel, and ultimately injects essential tonic to..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

It Is What It Is

The year in books

"...Following last year's Everyman, Philip Roth continued his long goodbye (every new book feels..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...interesting sentences of any writer in America today." And Philip Roth, upon Airships' release so long ago: "Hannah is..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"..."They fuck you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once famously wrote, and, yes, I suppose mine..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

18 is for Life at the Austin Jewish Film Festival

Fest returns online and at the drive-in

"...includes the US debuts for The Prague Orgy (adapting Philip Roth's 1985 novella), and Bukra Fil Mish-Mish, a joyous..."

Nov. 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American War by Omar El Akkad

This dystopian novel of a late 21st century America split by civil war shows how vengeance survives down the generations

"...all the rage. From George Orwell's venerable 1984 to Philip Roth's more recent The Plot Against America, tales of..."

April 21, 2017 Arts Review by Jay Trachtenberg

AFF Snags Jon Stewart’s Rosewater

The Humbling, The Last 5 Years tapped for opening night

"...and Richard LaGravenese's The Last 5 Years. Adapted from Philip Roth's 2009 novel and starring Al Pacino and Greta..."

Sept. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time?

With Michael Schaub, Kathryn Rogers, Matt Bucher, and more

"...Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion; The Human Stain by Philip Roth; Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike...."

Jan. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Film Flam

A Super Bowl surprise, SXSW Comedy news, & Kevin Smith

"...been moonlighting with advertising work since holding a recent Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University and receiving a PEN..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sad But True (Well, Mostly)

Tapping real-life crisis for comedy in 'Drinking Closer to Home'

"...book are brilliantly rendered, a contemporary California version of Philip Roth. There's a scene in the 1970s where the..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Books Feature by Marion Winik

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...London writer Howard Jacobson has been called the "English Philip Roth" for his astute, comic depiction of the modern..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Change in Perspective

Tom Grimes doesn't rewrite history in his memoir, Mentor – he just understands it a little better now

"...of creative writing programs (Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, and Philip Roth all taught there, and Raymond Carver, John Irving,..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Outsiders' Insider Guide to the Modern Jewish Experience

Ben Greenman at the 2009 Austin Jewish Book Fair

"...Talmud to Maimonides to Spinoza to Martin Buber to Philip Roth to Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood to The..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Books Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Footnotes to 2008

Five further thoughts on the year in film

"...on hiring British actors for the lead roles in Philip Roth adaptations? A few years back Anthony Hopkins played..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Google Mail Feels Your Morning-After Shame

Google Mail Goggles aim to curb drunk-emailing scourge

"...French New Wave trivia, or a name-the-sexual-dysfunction series of Philip Roth multiple choices?)..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

APL's Book Club Reboot

Austin Public Library gets hip with their Downtown Book Clubs

"...6: Home by Marilynne Robinson Nov. 3: Indignation by Philip Roth..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

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