Reading Myself and Others (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975)
The Professor of Desire (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977)
The Ghost Writer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979)
Zuckerman Unbound (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981)
The Anatomy Lesson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983)
The Prague Orgy (published as the epilogue to Zuckerman Bound, including The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, and The Anatomy Lesson) (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985)
The Counterlife (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)
The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988)
Deception: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990)
Patrimony: A True Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991)
Operation Shylock: A Confession (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993)
Sabbath’s Theater (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
American Pastoral (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
I Married a Communist (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
The Human Stain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
The Dying Animal (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
The Plot Against America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
Everyman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Exit Ghost (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Indignation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
The Humbling (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009)
Nemesis (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010)
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abortion
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
Adelson, Sheldon
Ad Hoc Czech Fund
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow, S.)
African Americans; in Newark, N.J.; passing for white in The Human Stain
Age of Reagan, The (Wilentz)
Algren, Nelson
Allen, Fred
Allen, Woody
Alvarez, Al
Ambassadors, The (James)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Imago
American Jewish Committee
American Judaism
American Pastoral (Roth); anti-war politics in; cited at National Humanities Medal ceremony; finale of; first attempt at writing; husband-wife relationship in; inspiration for; publication of; Pulitzer Prize of; research for; reviews of; Saul Bellow’s appreciation of; writing process for; writing styles in; Zuckerman in
American Place Theatre
American Review
American trilogy; see also American Pastoral; Human Stain, The; I Married a Communist
Amerika (Kafka, F.)
Amherst College
Amis, Martin
Amnesty International
Anatomy Lesson, The (Roth)
Anderson, Sherwood
Andy Hardy movies
Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
“Angry Act, The” (Kleinschmidt)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Annan, Noel
anti-Semitism; in academia; in England; history of, as theme in Roth’s novels; of Jews; of Lindbergh; of Nixon; in Roth’s childhood
anti-war movement
Antler, Joyce
Appelfeld, Aharon
Arafat, Yasir
Archer, Isabel
Arendt, Hannah
Aristophanes
Army, U.S.
Army-McCarthy hearings
Art of Fugue, The (Bach)
Art Students League
Asher, Aaron
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
Atlantic Monthly, The
Atwood, Margaret
Auden, W. H.
Auschwitz concentration camp
Avishai, Bernard
Babel, Isaac
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bailey, Clinton
Baldwin, James
Bard College
Barnes and Noble Review
Barth, John
baseball; books about; in Roth’s fiction (see also Great American Novel, The)
Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
“Bear Came Over the Mountain, The” (Munro)
Beard, Mary
Bech Is Back (Updike)
Bech Noir (Updike)
Beckett, Samuel
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Begin, Menachem
Bellow, Janis Freedman
Bellow, Saul; award named for; books by; death of; fictional character based on; Gornick’s feminist denunciation of; influence on Roth’s writing of; Jewish stories defined by; Joyce’s influence on; Library of America edition of complete works of; marriages of; realism of; Roth teaches course on
Bennett, Arnold
Bennington College
Benny, Jack
Beowulf (epic poem)
Berg, Gertrude
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Berlin, Irving
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernstein, Robert L.
Betrayal (Pinter)
Bible: Genesis
Blood Meridian (McCarthy, C.)
Bloom, Claire; adaptations of Chekhov works for; childhood during Second World War of; divorced by Roth; fictional characters based on, contributed to, or named for; in Italy; lives with Roth; marries Roth; memoir published by, see Leaving a Doll’s House; during Roth’s breakdown; sixty-second birthday party for; in television adaptation of The Ghost Writer
Bloom, Harold
B’nai B’rith, Anti-Defamation League of
Boas, Franz
Booker Prize
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borowski, Tadeusz
Boston Globe, The
Boston University
Bosworth, Patricia
Botstein, Leon
Boudin, Kathy
Bourjaily, Vance
Brand, Dorothy
Brando, Marlon
Breast, The (Roth)
Brendel, Alfred
Brice, Fanny
Brideshead Revisited (television miniseries)
British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
Brod, Max
Brodsky, Joseph
Bronfman, Yefim
Brown, Dan
Brown, Tina
Broyard, Anatole
Bruce, Lenny
Brynner, Yul
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buckman, Gertrude
Bucknell University; compulsory chapel attendance at; as escape from father’s interference; friendships with professors at; girlfriend Betty at; literary magazine at
Budapest
Budapest String Quartet
Bullock, Alan
Burma
Burton, Richard
Bush, George W.
Caedmon Records
Caldwell, Gail
Calley, William
Cambodia
“Cambodia: A Modest Proposal” (Roth)
Camus, Albert
Canby, Vincent
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)
Candide (Voltaire)
Capote, Truman
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie Hall (New York)
Caro, Robert
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Angela
Case Worker, The (Konrád)
Castle, The (Kafka, F.)
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)
Cather, Willa
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cerf, Bennett
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaucer, Geoffrey
&nbs
p; Cheever, John
Chekhov, Anton; influence on Roth’s writing of; in Roth’s novels; Roth teaches course on
Chełmno death camp
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Chicago; classical music in; Maggie Williams in; in Roth’s fiction; Sandy Roth in; University of
Chicago Tribune
Chichester Festival
Chopin, Frédéric
Christ in Concrete (di Donato)
Christian Front
Christians; Jewish parents’ opposition to children’s marriages to; response to Anne Frank’s diary among; in Roth’s fiction; see also Gentiles
Citizen Tom Paine (Fast)
City Athletic Club (New York)
City University of New York
Clark, Joanna Rostropowicz
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Coetzee, J. M.
Cohen, Florence
Cohen, Irving
Cohen, Leah Hager
Colbert, Claudette
Colette
Collier’s magazine
Columbia University
Commentary
Communists
Conarroe, Joel
Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron)
Congo, Republic of
Connecticut, Roth’s country house in; affair with neighbor of; cemetery near; Claire Bloom at; countryside around; friends living near; the Kunderas’ visit; purchase of; suicidal depression experienced at
Conrad, Joseph
“Conversion of the Jews, The” (Roth)
Corriere della Sera
Corwin, Norman
Coughlin, Father
counterculture. See sixties, counterculture of
Counterlife, The (Roth); England in; inspiration for; Israel in; liberating experience of writing; National Book Critics Circle Award for; reviews of; sales of; structure of; writing process of
Couples (Updike)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Crisis in the Life of an Actress, The (Kierkegaard)
Crouch, Stanley
Cuban missile crisis
Czechoslovakia; Communist Party of; Velvet Revolution in; see also Prague
Dachau concentration camp
Daily Beast, The
Daroff Award
Daumier, Honoré
Deception (Roth)
Declaration of Independence
“Defender of the Faith” (Roth)
DeLillo, Don
Demjanjuk, John
Democratic Party
De Niro, Robert
Diaries (Kafka, F.)
Diary of a Young Girl, The (Frank, A.); Broadway play based on; Claire Bloom’s recording of excerpts from
Diaspora
Diasporism
Dickens, Charles
Dickstein, Morris
Dinesen, Isak
Dispatches (Herr)
Dohrn, Bernardine
Donato, Pietro di
Dongala, Emmanuel
Donne, John
Dos Passos, John
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Doubleday
Dreiser, Theodore
Drowned and the Saved, The (Levi, P.)
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Dying Animal, The (Roth)
Ecstasy (movie)
Edel, Leon
Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, The (Rosten)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eldridge, Roy
“Eli, the Fanatic” (Roth)
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth (New Jersey)
Ellison, Ralph
Elon, Amos
Emerson String Quartet
Empire Burlesque (Newark, N.J.)
Encounter
England; anti-Americanism in; anti-Semitism in; refugees taken in; in Second World War; WH Smith Literary Award; see also London
Epstein, Barbara
Epstein, Jason
Epstein, Lawrence J.
“Epstein” (Roth)
Escher, M. C.
Esquire magazine
Et Cetera (Bucknell literary magazine)
Euripides
Everyman (Roth)
Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer)
Exit Ghost (Roth)
Exodus (Uris)
Facts, The (Roth); on experiences of anti-Semitism; Maggie Williams in; names changed to protect privacy of women in; parents in; on Second World War; tone of; on Yeshiva University symposium; Zuckerman in
Fall, The (Camus)
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrow, Mia
fascism
Fast, Howard
Faulkner, William
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Feiffer, Jules
feminism
Ferdydurke (Gombrowicz)
Ferenczi, Sándor
Fiedler, Leslie
Finkel, Emmanuel “Mickey”
Finkel, Ethel
Finkel, Honey
Finkel, Mickey
Finkel, Philip
Finkielkraut, Alain
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
First Diasporist Manifesto (Kitaj)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Flaubert, Gustave
Ford, Henry
Fort Dix
Four Last Songs (Strauss)
Fox, Joe
France; best foreign book of the year award in; see also Paris
Frank, Anne
Frank, Margot
Frasier, Antonia
Freedom House (Prague)
Freud, Sigmund
Freudians
Friedman, Bruce Jay
Fugs, The
Furies, The (Hobhouse)
Gabel, Martin
Galsworthy, John
Garden of Eden, The (Hemingway)
Gass, William
Gate of the Sun (Khoury)
Gates, David
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Gauguin, Paul
Geffen, Arthur
Generation of Vipers (Wylie, P.)
Genet, Jean
Geng, Veronica
Gens, Jacob
Gentiles; anti-Semitic; Jewish anger against
German American Bund
Germany; immigrants from; Literature Archive of; Nazi, see Nazis; in Second World War
Gershwin, George
Gessen, Keith
“Ghostly Father, I Confess” (McCarthy, M.)
Ghost Writer, The (Roth); and Anne Frank; dedication to Milan Kundera of; definition of Jewish writer in; inspiration for; reviews of; sales of; sequel to, see Exit Ghost; structure of; television adaptation of
Gide, André
Ginzburg, Eugenia
Giradoux, Jean
Gitcha, Meema
Gitlin, Todd
Glassman, Susan
God: A Biography (Miles)
Godfather, The (Puzo); movie version of
Goebbels, Joseph
Gogol, Nikolai
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing)
Gombrowicz, Witold
Goodbye, Columbus (Roth); awards won by; conversational style in; denunciations of Roth for portrayal of Jews in; earnings from; Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for; inspiration for; movie version of; pre-riot view of Newark, N.J., in; publication of; reviews of
Goodman, Benny
Gornick, Vivian
Graham, Billy
Grant, Linda
Gray, Paul
Great American Novel, The (Roth)
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald, F. S.)
Greenberg, Eliezer
Greenburg, Dan
Greenfield, Josh
Groddeck, Georg
Groffsky, Maxine
Grosse Fuge (Beethoven)
Groves of Academe, The (McCarthy, M.)
Grumbach, Doris
Guardian, The
Guston, Phili
p
Haaretz
Haetzni, Elyakim
Halcion
Haldeman, H. R.
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hardy, Thomas
Harvard University
Havel, Václav
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Haydn, Josef
Hayward, Susan
Hayworth, Rita
Hebrew University (Jerusalem)
Heine, Heinrich
Heller, Zoë
Hemingway, Ernest; alcoholism of; Mailer influenced by; novels by; in Paris; in Roth’s fiction
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Hepburn, Katharine
Herr, Michael
Hersey, John
Herzl, Theodore
Him with His Foot in His Mouth (Bellow, S.)
Hitler, Adolph
Hobhouse, Janet
Hoffman, Dustin
Holocaust; Anne Frank as symbol of; children during; Jewish Councils during; memorials to victims of; see also names of concentration camps and death camps
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Holub, Miroslav
Hope, Bob
Hopper, Edward
Houghton Mifflin; Literary Fellowship
“House I Live In, The” (song)
House Un-American Activities Committee
Howard, Maureen
Howe, Irving
How to Be a Jewish Mother (Greenburg)
Hudson Review, The
Huffington Post, The
Human Stain, The (Roth); and American trilogy, themes of; campus satire; feminist criticism; inspiration for; language in; music in; President Clinton; reviews of
Humbling, The (Roth)
Hungary
Hunger Artist, The (Kafka, F.)
Hungerford, Amy
Hunter College
Hurricane Katrina
Husák, Gustáv
Huvelle, C. H.
Huvelle, Mary
“‘I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting’; or, Looking at Kafka” (Roth)
I. F. Stone’s Weekly
“Imagining Jews” (Roth)
I Married a Communist (Roth); Bard class, discussion of female characters in; Claire Bloom’s memoir and reactions to; inspiration for; literary revenge; narrative device; old age in; romance of manhood in; reviews of
Immoralist, The (Gide)
Indignation (Roth)
In fact (newspaper)
In Our Time (Hemingway)
intifada
Intimate Lighting (movie)
Into That Darkness (Sereny)
Invisible Man, The (Ellison)
Iowa, University of; Writers’ Workshop
Iraq War
Irish immigrants
Irvington (New Jersey)
Islands in the Stream (Hemingway)
Israel; Bess and Herman Roth in; English attitudes toward; Roth in; in Roth’s fiction (see also Counterlife, The; Operation Shylock); West Bank; see also Jerusalem
Italy; immigrants from
It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis)
I Want to Live (movie)
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