This is a bibliography of works by and about Philip Roth.
| Year | Title | Protagonist / Narrator | Awards | Notes | LOA Volume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Goodbye, Columbus | Neil Klugman | Published with five short stories | LOA1 | ||
| 1962 | Letting Go | Gabe Wallach | LOA1 | |||
| 1967 | When She Was Good | Lucy Nelson | LOA2 | |||
| 1969 | Portnoy's Complaint | Alexander Portnoy | LOA2 | |||
| 1971 | Our Gang | Trick E. Dixon | LOA2 | |||
| 1972 | The Breast | David Kepesh | LOA2 | |||
| 1973 | The Great American Novel | Word Smith | LOA3 | |||
| 1974 | My Life as a Man | Nathan Zuckerman /Peter Tarnopol | LOA3 | |||
| 1977 | The Professor of Desire | David Kepesh | LOA3 | |||
| 1979 | The Ghost Writer | LOA4 | ||||
| 1981 | Zuckerman Unbound | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA4 | |||
| 1983 | The Anatomy Lesson | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA4 | |||
| 1985 | The Prague Orgy | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA4 | |||
| 1986 | The Counterlife | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA5 | |||
| 1988 | Philip Roth | LOA5 | ||||
| 1990 | Deception | Philip Roth | LOA5 | |||
| 1991 | Philip Roth | 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award | LOA5 | |||
| 1993 | Operation Shylock | Philip Roth | LOA6 | |||
| 1995 | Sabbath's Theater | Mickey Sabbath | 1995 National Book Award | LOA6 | ||
| 1997 | American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman / Swede Levov | LOA7 | |||
| 1998 | I Married a Communist | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA7 | |||
| 2000 | The Human Stain | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA7 | |||
| 2001 | The Dying Animal | David Kepesh | LOA8 | |||
| 2004 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | LOA8 | |||
| 2006 | Everyman | Unnamed | 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | LOA9 | ||
| 2007 | Exit Ghost | Nathan Zuckerman | LOA8 | |||
| 2008 | Indignation | Marcus Messner | LOA9 | |||
| 2009 | The Humbling | Simon Axler | LOA9 | |||
| 2010 | Nemesis | Bucky Cantor / Arnie Mesnikoff | LOA9 |
I The Nathan Zuckerman appearing in this book is not the same as the one appearing in later books, but a creation of the fictional writer Peter Tarnopol.
| Title | Original publication | Collected in: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy, or Something Like That | Et Cetera, May 1952 | ||
| The Box of Truths | Et Cetera, October 1952 | ||
| The Fence | Et Cetera, May 1953 | ||
| Armando and the Frauds | Et Cetera, October 1953 | ||
| The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn | Et Cetera, May 1954 | ||
| The Day It Snowed | Chicago Review, 8, 1954 | ||
| The Contest for Aaron Gold | Epoch, 5–6, 1955 | ||
| You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings | Commentary, 1957 | Goodbye, Columbus | |
| Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue | Chicago Review, 11, 1957 | ||
| Mrs. Lindbergh, Mr. Ciardi, and the Teeth and Claws of the Civilized World | Chicago Review, 11, 1957 | ||
| Rescue from Philosophy | The New Republic, 10 June 1957 | ||
| I Don't Want to Embarrass You | The New Republic, 15 July 1957 | ||
| The Hurdles of Satire | The New Republic, 9 September 1957 | ||
| Coronation on Channel Two | The New Republic, 23 September 1957 | ||
| Films as Sociology | The New Republic, 21 October 1957 | ||
| The Proper Study of Show Business | The New Republic, 23 December 1957 | ||
| The Conversion of the Jews | The Paris Review, Spring 1958 | Goodbye, Columbus | |
| Epstein | The Paris Review, Summer 1958 | Goodbye, Columbus | |
| Heard Melodies Are Sweeter | Esquire, August 1958 | ||
| Expect the Vandals | Esquire, December 1958 | ||
| The Kind of Person I am | The New Yorker, 29 November 1958 | ||
| Defender of the Faith | The New Yorker, March 1959 | Goodbye, Columbus | |
| Eli, the Fanatic | Goodbye, Columbus | ||
| Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope | Harper's Magazine, July 1959 | ||
| The Love Vessel | The Dial, 1, 1959 | ||
| The Good Girl | Cosmopolitan, May 1960 | ||
| The Mistaken | American Judaism, 10, 1960 | ||
| Jewishness and the Younger Intellectuals | Commentary, April 1961 | ||
| American Fiction | Commentary, September 1961 | ||
| Novotny's Pain | The New Yorker, October 1962 | A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.) | |
| Iowa: A Very Far Country Indeed, | Esquire, December 1962 | ||
| Philip Roth Talks to Teens | Seventeen, April 1963 | ||
| Second Dialogue in Israel | Congress Bi-Weekly, 16 September 1963 | ||
| Psychoanalytic Special | Esquire, November 1963 | ||
| An Actor's Life for Me | Playboy, January 1964 | ||
| Channel X: Two Plays on the Race Conflict | The New York Review of Books, 28 May 1964 | ||
| The National Pastime | Cavalier, May 1965 | ||
| Seasons of Discontent | The New York Review of Books, 7 November 1965 | ||
| Jewish Blues | New American Review, 1, 1967 | ||
| On the Air | New American Review, 10, 1970 | ||
| Looking at Kafka | New American Review, 1973 | A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.) | |
| Imagining Jews | The New York Review of Books, 1974 | ||
| In Search of Kafka and Other Answers | The New York Times Book Review, 15 February 1976 | ||
| Dialog: Philip Roth | Chicago Tribune, 25 September 1977 | ||
| His Mistress's Voice | Partisan Review, 53, 1986 | ||
| Smart Money | The New Yorker, February 1981 | Part of Zuckerman Unbound | |
| I Couldn't Restrain Myself | The New York Times Book Review, 21 June 1992 | ||
| A Bit of Jewish Mischief | The New York Times Book Review, 7 March 1993 | ||
| Dr. Huvelle: A Biographical Sketch | 1993 | 34-page booklet | |
| Juice or Gravy? How I Met My Fate in a Cafeteria | The New York Times Book Review, 18 September 1994 | ||
| The Ultimatum | The New Yorker, 26 June 1995 | Part of Sabbath's Theater | |
| Drenka's Men | The New Yorker, 10 July 1995 | Part of Sabbath's Theater | |
| Communist: Oh, Ma, Let Me Join the National Guard | The New Yorker, August 1998 | Part of I Married a Communist |
| Title | Originally published in | Collected in | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Report: Czechoslovakia | American PEN, 1973 | ||
| Introduction to Milan Kundera, Edward and God | American Poetry Review, March/April 1974 | ||
| Introduction to Jiří Weil, Two Stories about Nazis and Jews | American Poetry Review, September/October 1974 | ||
| Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz | The New York Times Book Review, 1976 | Shop Talk | |
| Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera | The New York Times Book Review, 1980 | Shop Talk | |
| Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien | The New York Times Book Review, 1984 | Shop Talk | |
| Pictures of Malamud | The New York Times Book Review, 1986 | Shop Talk | |
| A Man Saved by His Skills. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi | The New York Times Book Review, 12 October 1986 | Shop Talk | |
| Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld | The New York Times Book Review, 1988 | Shop Talk | |
| Pictures of Guston | Vanity Fair, 1989 | Shop Talk | |
| Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma | The New York Times Book Review, 1990 | Shop Talk | |
| An Exchange with Mary McCarthy | The New Yorker, 1998 | Shop Talk | |
| Rereading Saul Bellow | The New Yorker, 2000 | Shop Talk |
| Title | Year | Works Included | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Myself and Others | 1976 | Anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism | |
| A Philip Roth Reader | 1980; 2nd ed. 1993 | Selections from Roth's first eight novels; 2nd edition includes Novotny's Pain and Looking at Kafka | |
| Zuckerman Bound | 1985 | The Ghost Writer Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson The Prague Orgy | |
| Shop Talk | 2001 | Roth's interviews with 20th-century writers |
See main article: The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works. The first nine volumes are edited by Ross Miller, the last by the author himself.
| Title | Year | Works Included | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novels and Stories 1959–1962 | 2005 | Goodbye, Columbus Letting Go | |
| Novels 1967–1972 | 2005 | When She Was Good Portnoy's Complaint Our Gang The Breast | |
| Novels 1973–1977 | 2006 | The Great American Novel My Life As a Man The Professor of Desire | |
| Zuckerman Bound 1979–1985 | 2007 | The Ghost Writer Zuckerman Unbound The Anatomy Lesson The Prague Orgy unproduced television screenplay for The Prague Orgy | |
| Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991 | 2008 | The Counterlife The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography Deception Patrimony: A True Story | |
| Novels 1993–1995 | 2010 | Operation Shylock Sabbath's Theater | |
| American Trilogy 1997–2000 | 2011 | American Pastoral I Married a Communist The Human Stain | |
| Novels 2001–2007 | 2013 | The Dying Animal The Plot Against America Exit Ghost | |
| Nemeses | 2013 | Everyman Indignation The Humbling Nemesis | |
| Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013 | 2017 | Roth's selection from Reading Myself and Others (1975) Shop Talk (2001) Explanations (14 later pieces) (total 37 articles or essays) |
| interviewer | Title | Originally published in | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martha McGregor | The NBA Winner Talks Back | 1960 | in George J. Searles (ed.), Conversations with Philip Roth (Jackson, U.P. of Mississippi, 1992) | |
| Jerre Mangione | Philip Roth | 1966 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Philip Roth Tells about When She Was Good | Literary Guild Magazine, July 1967 | |||
| Howard Junker | Will This Finally Be Philip Roth's Year? | 1969 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Albert Goldman | Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Looms as a Wild Blue Shocker and the American Novel of the Sixties | 1969 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Philip Roth's Exact Intent | 1969 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | ||
| Alan Lelchuk | On Satirizing Presidents | 1971 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Walter Clemons | Joking in the Square | 1971 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Alan Lelchuk | On The Breast | 1972 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| A Conversation with Philip Roth | Ontario Review, Fall 1974 | |||
| Martha Saxton | Philip Roth Talks about His Own Work | 1974 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Walter Mauro | Writing and the Powers-that-Be | 1974 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Sara Davidson | Talk with Philip Roth | 1977 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| A Visit with Philip Roth | 1979 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | ||
| Michiko Kakutani | Is Roth Really Writing about Roth? | New York Times, May 1981 | ||
| Richard Stern | Roth Unbound | Saturday Review, June 1981 | ||
| Alan Finkielkraut | The Ghosts of Roth | 1981 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Ronald Hayman | Philip Roth: Should Sane Women Shy Away from Him at Parties? | 1981 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| The Book That I'm Writing | New York Times, 12 June 1983, late ed. | |||
| Cathleen Medwick | A Meeting of Arts and Minds | 1983 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Jonathan Brent | "The job", says Roth, "was to give pain its due" | 1983 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Jesse Kornbluth | Zuckerman Found? Philip Roth's One-Man Art Colony | 1983 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| David Plante | Conversations with Philip: Diary of a Friendship | 1984 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| The Art of Fiction, LXXXIV | 1984 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | ||
| Clive Sinclair | Doctor or Pornographer? Clive Sinclair Talks to Philip Roth about His New Book, | 1984 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Mervyn Rothstein | The Unbounded Spirit of Philip Roth | New York Times, 1 August 1985 | ||
| Ian Hamilton | A Confusion of Realms | 1985 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Mervyn Rothstein | Philip Roth and the World of «What If?» | 1986 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Paula Span | Roth's Zuckerman Redux; for «The Counterlife», Leading His Altered Ego through Life, Death and Renewal | Washington Post, 6 January 1987 | ||
| Paul Gray | The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth | 1987 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Alvin P. Sanoff | Writers Have a Third Eye | 1987 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Katharine Weber | Life, Counterlife | 1987 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Ken Adachi | Is Anyone out There Actually Reading? | Toronto Star, 17 September 1988 | ||
| Asher Z. Milbauer and Donald G. Watson | An Interview with Philip Roth | 1988 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Jonathan Brent | What Facts? A Talk with Philip Roth | 1988 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Katharine Weber | PW Interviews: Philip Roth | 1988 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Linda Matchan | Philip Roth Faces "The Facts" | 1988 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Mervyn Rothstein | From Philip Roth, "The Facts" as He Remembers Them | 1988 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Goodbye Newark: Roth Remembers His Beginnings | New York Times, 1 October 1989 | |||
| Brian D. Johnson | Intimate Affairs | 1990 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Hermione Lee | "Life Is and": Philip Roth in 1990 | 1990 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Alvin P. Sanoff | Facing a Father's Death | 1990 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Lynn Darling | His Father's Son | Newsday, 28 January 1991 | ||
| Lynn Darling | A Moving Family Memoir on Life and Death in «Patrimony» | 1991 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Mervyn Rothstein | To Newark, with Love. Philip Roth | 1991 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Molly McQuade | Just a Lively Boy | 1991 | in G. J. Searles (ed.), cit. | |
| Marjorie Keyishian | Roth Returning to Newark to Get History Award | New York Times, 4 October 1992 | ||
| Esther B. Fein | Philip Roth Sees Double. And Maybe Triple, Too | New York Times, 9 March 1993 | ||
| Esther B. Fein | "Believe Me," Says Roth with a Straight Face | New York Times, 9 March 1993 late ed. | ||
| Dan Cryer | Talking with Philip Roth: Author Meets the Critics | Newsday, 28 March 1993 | ||
| Mifflin Houghton | I Married a Communist Interview | 1998 | link | |
| Christa Maerker | The Roth Explosion: Confessions of a Writer | 1998 | film (duration: 53') | |
| Charles McGrath | Zuckerman's Alter Brain | New York Times Book Review, 7 May 2000 | ||
| Terry Gross | Interview | Fresh Air (radio), 8 May 2000 | afterward in Fresh Air: Writers Speak with Terry Gross, Minneapolis: Highbridge, 2004; and in Writers Speak: A Collection of Interviews with Writers on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Boston: WHYY, 2004 | |
| Robert McCrum | A Conversation with Philip Roth | Guardian Unlimited, 1 July 2001 | link | |
| David Remnick | Philip Roth at 70 | BBC4, London, 19 March 2003 | ||
| Robert Siege | Roth Rewrites History with "The Plot Against America" | "All Things Considered" (radio), 23 September 2004 | WNYC, New York | |
| John Freeman | The America That Was, and the Past That Wasn't | San Francisco Chronicle, 3 October 2004 | link | |
| "NPR Interview with Philip Roth" | NPR's Fresh Air, 11 October 2004 | link | ||
| Jeffrey Brown | Interview | «News Hour with Jim Lehrer», PBS, 27 October 2004 and 10 November 2004 | ||
| Kurt Anderson | Interview | «Studio 360», 6 November 2004 | WNYC, New York | |
| Katie Couric | Interview | «Today Show», NBC, 2004 | ||
| Tom Ashbrook | Novelist Philip Roth | «On Point», 3 December 2004 | WBUR, Boston | |
| Michael Krasny | Interview | Forum, 29 December 2004 | KQED, San Francisco | |
| Nils Minkmar | Interview | Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 8 August 2005 | in German | |
| Sacha Verna | Ich frage, was wäre... | Die Zeit, 18 August 2005 | in German | |
| Charles McGrath | Why Is This Man Smiling? | New York Times, 4 September 2005, late ed. | ||
| Martin Krasnik | It No Longer Feels a Great Injustice That I Have to Die | The Guardian, 14 December 2005 | link | |
| Terry Gross | Philip Roth Discusses His Latest Accolade | «Fresh Air», 28 December 2005 | WHYY, Philadelphia on link | |
| Charles McGrath | Philip Roth, Haunted by Illness, Feels Fine | New York Times, 25 April 2006 | ||
| Robert Siege | Roth Returns with Life and Death of Everyman | «All Things Considered», 2 May 2006 | ||
| Terry Gross | Philip Roth Discusses Everyman | «Fresh Air», 8 May 2006 | WHYY, Philadelphia | |
| Mark Lawson | Philip Roth’s 21st Century | «Mark Lawson Talks to...», BBC4, London, 3 June 2006 | ||
| Volker Hage | Old Age Is a Massacre | Spiegel Online, 25 August 2006 | ||
| Hans Olav Brenner | Interview | Bokprogrammet NRK1, 27 August 2007 | NBC | |
| John Freeman | Philip Roth Ponders Aging | «Star-Ledger» [Newark, NJ], 23 September 2007 | ||
| Robert Siegel | Author Says New Zuckerman Novel to Be the Last | «All Things Considered», 24 September 2007 | link | |
| Terry Gross | Philip Roth's «Ghost» Returns | «Fresh Air», 25 September 2007 | WHYY, Philadelphia | |
| Hillel Italie | Roth Says Farewell to Fictional Hero | «Associated Press Archive», 27 September 2007 | on link (20 March 2009) | |
| Robert J. Hughes | Roth Says: Goodbye, Nathan | «Wall Street Journal», 28 September 2007 | link | |
| Mark Weitzmann | In Conversation... | Washington Post, 30 September 2007 | link | |
| James Mustich | Roth on Zuckerman's Curtain Call | «Barnes & Noble Review», 1 October 2007 | ||
| Hermione Lee | Age Makes a Difference | «The New Yorker», 1 October 2007 | link and link | |
| Mark Lawson | Philip Roth in His Own Words | «Front Row», Radio 4. BBC, London, 2 October 2007 and The Independent, London, 3 October 2007 | link | |
| Johanna Schneller | Philip Roth: «I'm not crazy... that time is running out» | The Globe and Mail Canada, 13 October 2007 | link | |
| Tom Nissley | Exit Zuckerman: An Interview with Philip Roth | No date [but 2007] on Amazon site | transcript of audio interview | |
| Klaus Brinkbäumer and Volker Hage | Bush Is Too Horrendous to Be Forgotten | Spiegel Online, 8 February 2008 | ||
| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg | Philip Roth Goes Back to College | The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 2008 | ||
| James Marcus | Philip Roth, on Writing and Being Ticked Off | Los Angeles Times, 14 September 2008 | link | |
| Robert Siege | In Indignation, Roth Draws On His College Days | «All Things Considered», 15 September 2008 | link | |
| Philip Dodd | Interview | «Night Waves», 15 September 2008 | BBC Radio 3 | |
| Benjamin Taylor | Interview | Live Webcast Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin, 16 September 2008 | ||
| Robert Hilferty | Interview | «Muse TV», 19 September 2008 | link and link | |
| Robert McCrum | The Story of My Lives | Observer Magazine, 21 September 2008 | link | |
| Jeff Baker | Interview | The Oregonian, 21 September 2008 | Edited and condensed interview. Full version is on link (18 September 2008) | |
| James Mustich | Philip Roth: Indignation | «Barnes & Noble Review», 3 November 2008 | link | |
| Andrew Corsello | Last Lion Roaring | Gentlemen's Quarterly, December 2008 | ||
| Tina Brown | Philip Roth Unbound | The Daily Beast, 21 October 2009 | link | |
| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg | Roth on Roth | Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2009 | link | |
| Kirsty Wark | Interview | Newsnight, BBC2, London, 30 October 2009 | link | |
| Paola Zanuttini | Sex and Me | La Repubblica, February 2010 | Italian interview. Notice by Judith Thurman on The New Yorker, 5 April 2010 | |
| Rita Braver | Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God | CBS News, 10 March 2010 | link | |
| Chris Wragge and Erica Hill | A Rare Look at Author Phillip Roth | CBS News, 3 October 2010 | link | |
| Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging and «Nemesis» | NPR, 14 October 2010 | link | ||
| Benjamin Taylor | Man Booker International Prize 2011 Winner Philip Roth | 23 May 2011 | link video transcript | |
| Eleanor Wachtel | Philip Roth Interview | CBC Radio, 27 March 2011 | link |