PHILIP ROTH

Claudia Roth Pierpont, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) ("Roth Unbound is fundamentally an examination of Roth's development as a writer, considering his themes, his thoughts, and his language. [] In 2006, when The New York Times Book Review conducted a poll among contemporary writers, editors, and critics to determine 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years,' a Roth novel did not come in first only because the votes for his work were split among seven different books. Not since Henry James, it seems to me, has an American novelist worked at such a sustained pitch of concentration and achievement, book after book after book." Id. at 5.).