Baumgarten, Murray, and Barbara Gottfried. "The Suburbs of Forgetfiilness: Goodbye, Columbus" In Understanding Philip Roth, pp. 21-59. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.

Interpretative analysis of the novella and five short stories, focusing on Roth's representation of suburban Jewry.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Philip Roth. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986, 188 p.

Collection of critical essays addressing Roth's corpus.

Deer, Irving, and Harriet Deer. "Philip Roth and the Crisis in American Fiction." The Minnesota Review VI, No. 4 (1966): 353-60.

Proposes that Roth's short stories feature characters who find themselves caught between European Jewish tradition and modern American individualism.

Gross, Barry. "American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of The Human Negro' in Philip Roth." MEWS 11, No. 2 (Summer 1984): 5-22.

Examines Roth's portrayal of African Americans in the novella Goodbye, Columbus, arguing that Roth is singular among Jewish American writers of the twentieth century in that he does not use black characters to personify unorganized, irrational forces.

Israel, Charles M. "The Fractured Hero of Roth's Goodbye, Columbus." Critique XVI, No. 2 (1974): 5-11.

Purports that the principal theme of Roth's novella is the hero's inability to arrive at an understanding of himself.

Lee, Hermoine. "The Art of Fiction LXXXIV: Philip Roth." Paris Review 26, No. 93 (Fall 1984): 215-47.

Interview with Roth in which the author discusses his life and fiction.

MacLeod, Norman. "A Note on Philip Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus' and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." The International Fiction Review 12, No. 2 (Summer 1985): 104-7.

Delineates thematic similarities between Roth's novella and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, asserting that Roth's work is "a conscious part of the artistic design of the later story."

McDaniel, John N. The Fiction of Philip Roth. Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974, 243 p.

Attempts to position Roth in contemporary American fiction by examining his artistry, heroes, and critical reception.

Milbauer, Asher Z., and Donald G. Watson, eds. Reading Philip Roth. London: Macmillan Press, 1988, 205 p.

Contains twelve original essays enveloping Roth's entire body of fiction, in addition to an interview with Roth by the editors.

Pinsker, Sanford. The Comedy that "Hoits": An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1975, 121 p.

Examines Roth's techniques for transcending suffering in his fiction.

Pinsker, Sanford, ed. Critical Essays on Philip Roth. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1982, 278 p.

Includes reprinted criticism encompassing all of Roth's works prior to 1982, as well as four original essays.

Rodgers, Bernard F., Jr. Philip Roth. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978, 192 p.

Offers several essays addressing predominant themes in Roth's collection, Goodbye, Columbus.

——. Philip Roth: A Bibliography, 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1984, 386 p.

Features annotated bibliographical listings of primary and secondary materials prior to 1984.

Roth, Philip. "Writing American Fiction." Commentary 31, No. 3 (March 1961): 223-33.

Comments on the shocking nature of contemporary American society and its impact on literature, including his own fiction.

Searles, George J . "Philip Roth's 'Kafka': A 'Jeu-ish American' Fiction of the First Order." Yiddish 4, No. 4 (Winter 1982): 5-11.

Provides a laudatory critical overview of Roth's "'I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting'; or, Looking at Kafka."

——. The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, 197 p.

Surveys the social realism, literary method, and predominant themes of Roth's and Updike's fiction, drawing comparisons between the two authors.

——. "The Mouths of Babes: Childhood Epiphany in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews' and Updike's 'Pigeon Feathers.'" Studies in Short Fiction 24, No. 1 (Winter 1987): 59-62.

Uncovers thematic similarities in "Conversion of the Jews" and Updike's "Pigeon Feathers," focusing especially on the role of religion in these works.

Simon, Elliot M. "Philip Roth's 'Eli the Fanatic': The Color of Blackness." Yiddish 7, No. 4 (1990): 39-48.

Asserts that the protagonist's donning of black clothing is a métonymie expression of his connection to the sacred.

Waxman, Barbara Frey. "Jewish American Princesses, Their Mothers, and Feminist Psychology: A Rereading of Roth's 'Goodbye, Columbus.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 1 (Spring 1988): 90-104.

Addresses the stereotype of the Jewish American princess in the novella Goodbye, Columbus.

Additional coverage of Roth's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Bestsellers 90: 3; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: 1968-1988; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1-4; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 1, 22, 36, 55; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 15, 22, 31, 47, 66, 86; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 28, 173; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Vol 82; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors: Most-Studied Authors Module; DISCovering Authors: Novelists Module; DISCovering Authors: Popular Fiction and Genre Authors Module; Major 20th-century Writers; and World Literature Criticism.