The Roth Quest
October 25, 2010 · Magazine, Saul Rosenberg, Books and Arts
Nemesis
Literary and Cultural Critic
Saul Rosenberg
3 articles 1996–2010
Saul Rosenberg contributed literary and cultural criticism to The Weekly Standard between 1996 and 2010. His essays for the magazine explored topics in literature and academia, including the work of Philip Roth and the intersection of intellectual and academic culture.
THE GRAVES OF ACADEME
December 9, 1996 · Blog, Saul Rosenberg
In a passage that neatly captures both the nature and the problem of what is called "postmodern" fiction, a character in a John Barth story muses:
TWO CULTURES STILL
November 18, 1996 · Blog, Saul Rosenberg
The British novelist and scientist C. P. Snow famously suggested nearly forty years ago that the West had unfortunately developed not one intellectual culture but two. On one side were the scientists, who could not distinguish Jane Austen from Agatha Christie; on the other, the artists, ignorant of…