Review of Nemesis by Philip Roth

Published on 13 November 2010 in Moment

About halfway through Philip Roth’s quietly riveting new novel, its protagonist finds himself in the Poconos, far—it would seem—from the polio epidemic that is scouring the streets of Newark in the roasting summer of 1944. Bucky Cantor is 23 years old, a phys-ed teacher and—until this point in the novel—playground director for two schools, Chancellor [...]