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A new biography ‘unveils’ Philip Roth as a misogynist. Tell me something I don’t know – The Guardian
The campaign to cancel the author is typical of today’s all-or-nothing approach, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, you can’t like anything…
In order to grow up, as Sigmund Freud probably wrote somewhere, a child must rebel against its parents, and for a while now modern culture has been rebelling against its literary fathers, that Mount Rushmore of 20th-century highbrow masculinity: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth. Last month, twoBritish newspapers announced that Roth could face getting cancelled on account of details about his personal life included in two new biographies. That Roth arguably cancelled himself…
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