David Baddiel

Philip Roth — most meta of novelists, and most honest

His entire oeuvre is a series of romans-à clef, and he was ‘incapable of dissembling his human essence’, says Blake Bailey

Roth, photographed with a portrait of Kafka for a feature by Albert Goldman in Life Magazine, February 1969. Credit: Bob Peterson
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  • Philip Roth: The Biography

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