Simone Zelitch
By Simone Zelitch
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Culture How Philip Roth Predicted the Rise of Donald Trump
A candidate galvanizes a weakened and divided Republican Party. He’s a celebrity, a charismatic outsider with no political experience, and his racist rhetoric does nothing to halt his momentum. As Philip Roth wrote, “Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.” Am I the only one who — just a week ago — pulled Roth’s…
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News A Hard-To-Love but Indisputably Lovable Wielder of the Poison Pen
A Window Across the River By Brian Morton Harcourt, 304 pages, $25. * * *| Writers are often told not to write novels about writing. The temptation must be tremendous. After all, they know the territory and the tools, and to a novelist, few things are more gripping than the process of putting words on…
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