(David Post)Without much fanfare, Philip Roth has declared that he is retiring. There’s a very nice appreciation by Panio Gianopoulos here on Slate, with others, surely, to follow. The best American novelist since Faulkner? Here’s my idiosyncratic list of his true masterpieces: Portnoy’s Complaint, American Pastoral, The Ghost Writer, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, Everyman, and Sabbath’s Theater. Who else [...]
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