This week, Elliott is joined by the author Toby Lloyd, to talk about one of Philip Roth's most Jewish novels: The Ghost Writer (1979).

There will be spoilers, so if you want to buy and read the book first, you can do so here.

You can find out more about Toby's own book, Fervour here.

If you're interested in reading Roth's article from 1963 on writing about Jews, you can do so here: https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-about-jews/

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On Thursday, look out for a special epsiode we are putting out for Pesach: Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet on how Moses knew he was a Hebrew.

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