Short Stories and Reviews
This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.| Title | Original publication | Collected in: |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy, or Something Like That | Et Cetera, May 1952 | |
| The Box of Truths | Et Cetera, October 1952 | |
| The Fence | Et Cetera, May 1953 | |
| Armando and the Frauds | Et Cetera, October 1953 | |
| The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn | Et Cetera, May 1954 | |
| The Day It Snowed | Chicago Review, 8, 1954 | |
| The Contest for Aaron Gold | Epoch, 5-6, 1955 | |
| You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings | Commentary, 1957 | Goodbye, Columbus |
| Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue | Chicago Review, 11, 1957 | |
| Mrs. Lindbergh, Mr. Ciardi, and the Teeth and Claws of the Civilized World |
Chicago Review, 11, 1957 | |
| Rescue from Philosophy | The New Republic, 10 June 1957 | |
| I Don't Want to Embarrass You | The New Republic, 15 July 1957 | |
| The Hurdles of Satire | The New Republic, 9 September 1957 | |
| Coronation on Channel Two | The New Republic, 23 September 1957 | |
| Films as Sociology | The New Republic, 21 October 1957 | |
| The Proper Study of Show Business | The New Republic, 23 December 1957 | |
| The Conversion of the Jews | The Paris Review, Spring 1958 | Goodbye, Columbus |
| Epstein | The Paris Review, Summer 1958 | Goodbye, Columbus |
| Heard Melodies Are Sweeter | Esquire, August 1958 | |
| Expect the Vandals | Esquire, December 1958 | |
| The Kind of Person I am | The New Yorker, 29 November 1958 | |
| Defender of the Faith | The New Yorker, March 1959 | Goodbye, Columbus |
| Eli, the Fanatic | Goodbye, Columbus | |
| Recollections from Beyond the Last Rope | Harper's Magazine, July 1959 | |
| The Love Vessel | The Dial, 1, 1959 | |
| The Good Girl | Cosmopolitan, May 1960 | |
| The Mistaken | American Judaism, 10, 1960 | |
| Jewishness and the Younger Intellectuals | Commentary, April 1961 | |
| American Fiction | Commentary, September 1961 | |
| Novotny's Pain | The New Yorker, October 1962 | A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.) |
| Iowa: A Very Far Country Indeed | Esquire, December 1962 | |
| Philip Roth Talks to Teens | Seventeen, April 1963 | |
| Second Dialogue in Israel | Congress Bi-Weekly, 16 September 1963 | |
| Psychoanalytic Special | Esquire, November 1963 | |
| An Actor's Life for Me | Playboy, January 1964 | |
| Channel X: Two Plays on the Race Conflict | The New York Review of Books, 28 May 1964 | |
| The National Pastime | Cavalier, May 1965 | |
| Seasons of Discontent | The New York Review of Books, 7 November 1965 | |
| On the Air | New American Review, 10, 1970 | |
| Looking at Kafka | New American Review, 1973 | A Philip Roth Reader (1993 ed.) |
| Imagining Jews | The New York Review of Books, 1974 | |
| In Search of Kafka and Other Answers | The New York Review of Books, 15 February 1976 | |
| Dialog: Philip Roth | Chicago Tribune, 25 September 1977 | |
| His Mistress's Voice | Partisan Review, 53, 1986 | |
| Smart Money | The New Yorker, February 1981 | Part of Zuckerman Unbound |
| I Couldn't Restrain Myself | The New York Times Book Review, 21 June 1992 | |
| A Bit of Jewish Mischief | The New York Times Book Review, 7 March 1993 | |
| Dr. Huvelle: A Biographical Sketch | 1993 | 34-page booklet |
| Juice or Gravy? How I Met My Fate in a Cafeteria | The New York Times Book Review, 18 September 1994 | |
| The Ultimatum | The New Yorker, 26 June 1995 | Part of Sabbath's Theater |
| Drenka's Men | The New Yorker, 10 July 1995 | Part of Sabbath's Theater |
| Communist: Oh, Ma, Let Me Join the National Guard | The New Yorker, August 1998 | Part of I Married a Communist |
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