“Even in Roth’s greatest work, if there is an act of villainy afoot, you can bet a woman is at the root of it. I revere Philip Roth, but if I were a woman I wouldn’t get within a hundred miles of the man. But you [Swedish Academy], my esteemed friends, must see past all that, not because Roth’s personal failings don’t affect the work, since they plainly do, or even because we must take the good with the bad, but because, in Roth’s case, the good is inseparable from the bad.”
The Millions has posted “An Open Letter to the Swedish Academy,” urging the Nobel Prize for Literature to be awarded to Philip Roth.
