The Writings

 

Fiction

Nonfiction

Uncollected Stories and Drama

Uncollected Essays

Uncollected Reviews

 

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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    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.
	The Prague Orgy.  New York: Vintage, 1996.  (First published in Zuckerman    Bound, 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.

Nonfiction

 

	Reading Myself and Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
	Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work.  Boston: Houghton    Mifflin,  2001.  (Previously published interviews with Primo Levi, Aharon    Appelfeld, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, Edna O'Brien, Ivan Klíma,    Mary McCarthy and essays on Bernard Malamud, Philip Guston, and Saul    Bellow.)

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)