Philip Roth: A storyteller's eye on death and defiance

Courtesy Culture - International Herald Tribune  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 08:20

"Indignation," set during the Korean War in a small, conservative Ohio college, evokes a nasty period of America's social history, but like Roth's two previous novels, it's also ruthlessly economical and relentlessly death-bound.

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