Like preeminent philosopher Judith Butler, Joshua Lander argues in Philip Roth and the Body that bodies indeed matter. By attentively reading Roths complicated and vexed bodies in particular, Landers work shows how reading Roth with an eye toward embodiment elicits a deeper sense of humanity. Complicating current debates about Roths representations of gender, Jewishness, and racial difference, Philip Roth and the Body understands Roths corpus (itself an impressive body of work committed to redefining the work of the body) as fundamentally ethical in the ways it destabilizes and resists the fascist logic of white supremacy, and, in so doing, calls into question our own relationships with bodies that matter. * Aimee Pozorski, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, USA, and former co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies *
