Weequahic’s Complaint: The President’s a Fascist

The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 391 pages, $26.

A little more than 15 years ago, Philip Roth published a slim, peculiar book called The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography, which consisted of a brief letter from “Roth” to his fictional alter ego, Zuckerman; an airbrushed memoir of the author’s first 55 Read More

We Married a Fascist

1) Mr. Roth Meets Mr. Lindbergh

When I got the news that a galley of the new Philip Roth novel was available, I raced down to the Union Square offices of Houghton Mifflin. It was late in the day, so by the time I got there, the offices were closed, but they’d been kind enough Read More

Old Blacksmith Shop Is My New York-At $25 an Entree

I’m planning to make a dinner reservation soon at One If By Land, Two If By Sea, a restaurant at 17 Barrow Street just off Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. I’m not going for the food; I’m going because the restaurant is in an old carriage house that served for about 55 years as my Read More

If Stock Market Tanks, Keep an Eye on Buchanan

A Presidential election is coming on us, and Patrick J. Buchanan is back in New Hampshire-a political swallow returning to his electoral Capistrano.

Pat has become a kind of white man’s Jesse Jackson. You never know whether either of these two mucklemouths mean it, or if they do it because afterwards it kicks up their Read More