Philip Roth's Nemesis⁠[1] continues the author's recent investigations into physical decay and death and his preoccupation with the life and times of the Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, in the 1940s and ’50s. Roth was graduated from Weequahic High School in 1950, and his later novels often return to that […]

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