Philip Roth – an unreconstructed literary giant

Philip Roth, one of the greats in American literature, is catching the wrath of the current zeitgeist for his out-of-date attitudes to women and sex. Brickbats are being thrown despite him dying three years back, as a weighty new biography details his creative and amorous progress through 31 books, a Pulitzer and numerous other awards, and a string of liaisons.  Evidently he preferred his sex with a minimum of commitment, domesticity without encumbrance. He cherished privacy and to break th