Friday, August 10, 2018

The Counterlife

Philip Roth's novel is bursting with ideas, family dysfunction, and his usual sexual themes. The intelligence underlying the book practically hums, but it is worn lightly and not as an instrument to bludgeon the reader. It is to the writer's credit that all of the alternative paths presented, and all of the political arguments pro and con, are persuasive.

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