Shop Talk (Mandarin Edition)

With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz.

With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia.

With Edna OBrien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile.

Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friendsthe writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Gustonat the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow.