Review: The Human Stain by Philip Roth

This week, we reviewed The Human Stain by Philip Roth, an idiosyncratic American stylist.  Though a best-seller and winner of the PEN/Faulkner when it was published, we were not as impressed.  Why not?  Listen and find out! This is the last novel in our Campus Novels series. We previously covered Stoner and The Secret History which you can find in our archives. Want to talk about The Human Stain? Disagree with our assessment of the book? Join our discussion at  where you can also find show notes, credits and discussion questions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying The Human Stain or another book from one of our curated lists:  We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Fac