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Fiction
Goodbye, Columbus and Five
Short Stories .
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Letting Go . New York: Random
House, 1962.
When She Was Good . New
York: Random House, 1967.
Portnoy's Complaint . New
York: Random House, 1969.
Our Gang (Starring Tricky and
His Friends) . New York: Random House, 1971.
The Breast . New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
The Great American Novel .
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
My Life as a Man . New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
The Professor of Desire .
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
The Ghost Writer . New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
A Philip Roth Reader . New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
Zuckerman Unbound . New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.
The Anatomy Lesson . New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy
and Epilogue . New York: Farrar, Straus and
The Counterlife . New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography .
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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.
The Prague
Orgy . New York: Vintage, 1996. (First published in
Zuckerman , 1985.)
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.
The
Plot Against America: A Novel . 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.
Reading Myself and Others .
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
Shop Talk: A
Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work . Boston: Houghton (Previously published interviews with Primo Levi, Aharon
Novels and Short Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories and Letting Go. New York: Library of America, 2005.
Novels 1967-1972: When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, and The Breast. New York: Library of America, 2005.
Novels 1973-1977: The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, and The Professor of Desire. New York: Library of America, 2006.
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and an Epilogue 1979-1985: The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, and The Prague Orgy. New York: Library of America, 2007.
Novels and Other Narratives 1986-1991: The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception, Patrimony. New York: Library of America, 2008.
Uncollected Stories and
Drama
"Philosophy, Or Something Like
That." Et Cetera May 1952: 5, 16.
"The Box of Truths." Et Cetera
October 1952: 10-12.
"The Fence." Et Cetera
May 1953: 18-23.
"Armando and the Fraud."
Et
Cetera October 1953: 21-32.
"The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn."
Et Cetera May 1954: 20-28.
"The Day It Snowed." Chicago
Review 8 (1954): 34-45.
"The Contest for Aaron Gold."
Epoch
5-6 (1955): 37-50.
"Heard Melodies Are Sweeter."
Esquire
Aug. 1958: 58.
"Expect the Vandals." Esquire
Dec. 1958: 208-28.
"The Love Vessel."
The Dial
1 (1959): 41-68.
"The Good Girl." Cosmopolitan
May 1960: 98-103.
"The Mistaken." American Judaism
10 (1960): 10.
"Novotny's Pain." New Yorker
27 Oct. 1962: 46-56.
"Psychoanalytic Special."
Esquire
Nov. 1963: 106.
"An Actor's
Life for Me." Playboy Jan. 1964: 84-86, 228-35.
“The
National Pastime.” [a one-act play] Cavalier May 1965: 16+.
"On the Air." New American
Review 10 (1970): 7-49.
"His Mistress's Voice."
Partisan
Review 53 (1986): 155-176.
Uncollected Essays
"Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania
Avenue." Chicago Review 11 (1957): 21-24.
"Mrs.
Lindbergh, Mr. Ciardi, and
the Teeth and Claws of the Civilized World." Chicago Review 11 (1957):
72-76.
"The Kind of Person I Am."
New
Yorker 29 Nov. 1958: 173-178.
"Recollections from Beyond the
Last Rope." Harper's July 1959: 42-48.
"American Fiction." Commentary
Sept. 1961: 248-52. (Letters about "Writing American Fiction" and Roth's
response)
"Iowa: A Very Far
Country Indeed."
Esquire Dec. 1962: 19-32.
"Philip Roth Talks to Teens."
Seventeen
April 1963: 170.
"Second Dialogue in Israel."
Congress
Bi-Weekly 30 (1963): 4-85.
"Philip Roth Tells about
When
She Was Good ." Literary Guild Magazine July 1967: unpaginated.
"Introduction: Milan Kundera,
Edward and God." American Poetry Review March/April 1974: 5.
"Introduction: Jiri Weil, Two
Stories about Nazis and Jews." American Poetry Review Sept./Oct.
1974: 22.
"In Search of Kafka and Other
Answers." The New York Times Book Review 15 Feb. 1976: 6-7.
"Oh, Ma, Let Me
Join the National Guard." The New York Times 24
Aug. 1988: A25.
"'I Couldn't
Restrain Myself.'" The New York Times Book Review
21
June 1992: 73.
"A Bit of Jewish Mischief."
The
New York Times Book Review 7 March 1993: 1+.
"Juice or Gravy? How I Met My
Fate in a Cafeteria." The New York Times Book Review 18 Sept. 1994:
3+.
Uncollected Reviews
"Rescue from Philosophy."
New
Republic 10 June 1957: 22. (On the film Funny Face )
"I Don't Want to Embarrass You."
New Republic 15 July 1957: 21-22. (On Edward R. Murrow's Person
to Person )
"The Hurdles of Satire."
New
Republic 9 Sept. 1957: 22. (On Sid Caesar's comedy hour.)
"Coronation on Channel Two."
New
Republic 23 Sept. 1957: 21. (On the Miss America Pageant)
"Films as Sociology." New Republic
21 Oct. 1957: 21-22. (On the films Something of Value and Hatful
of Rain )
"The Proper Study
of Show Business."
New Republic 23 Dec. 1957: 21. (On the films Pal Joey and
Les Girls )
"Channel X: Two Plays on the Race
Conflict." New York Review of Books 28 May 1964: 10-13. (On Jame's
Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie and LeRoi Jones's Dutchman )
"Seasons of Discontent."
The
New York Times Book Review 7 Nov. 1965: 2. (On Robert Burnstein's
Seasons
of Discontent )
