Benjamin Markovits

Adam Mars-Jones argues persuasively that Roth, in The Ghost Writer, is setting up straw men (LRB, 23 January). Judge Wapter, for example, who tasks the young Zuckerman with a list of silly questions: ‘If you had been living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, would you have written such a story?’ Mars-Jones quotes an earlier line from Roth that suggests some sympathy for Jewish critics who reacted with...