Roth’s novel, written in the years following 9/11, made a splash as critics drew parallels between the plot–Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 election and America begins a process of Nazification, including pogroms–and the Bush administration’s War on Terror.
Reviewers like J.M. Coetzee (full article paywalled) and Frank Rich, after ritually warding off such allegorical [...]