Volume 51, Number 18 · November 18, 2004

What Philip Knew

By J.M. Coetzee
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

Houghton Mifflin, 391 pp., $26.00

In 1993, over the name 'Philip Roth,' there appeared a book entitled Operation Shylock: A Confession, which besides being a dazzling raid into territory that had seemed to be staked out by John Barth and the metafictionists, was also about Israel and its relations with the Jewish Diaspora.



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