Sanford Pinsker

Biography

Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger. He also has published more than 800 articles, essays, editorials, and book reviews, frequently contributing to Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, and VQR. He recently retired after 37 years of teaching at Franklin and Marshall College.

See Work

Winter 1995

Singing the Blues All the Way to the Bank

By Sanford Pinsker
ESSAYS / Summer 2005

The Tortoise and the Hare; Or, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and the Vagaries of Fiction Writing

By Sanford Pinsker

In 1959, a thirty-one-year-old writer named Cynthia Ozick was hard at work, in her determined tortoise-like way, on an ambitious novel that, seven years later, would be published as Trust; and also in 1959, a young, in-your-face writer...

ESSAYS / Fall 2004

Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men

By Sanford Pinsker

I would argue that we are still under the mythos of populism, whether it be the relatively mild form promulgated by an aging William Jennings Bryan, who crossed verbal swords in the mid-1920s with Clarence Darrow over teaching Darwin in...

CRITICISM / Spring 2004

Hating America, at Home and Abroad

By Sanford Pinsker
Summer 1991

William Faulkner and My Middle East Problem

By Sanford Pinsker
Winter 1998

Muckraking Inside the Ivory Towers

By Sanford Pinsker
Summer 1988

Cakes and Ale and English Letters

By Sanford Pinsker
Autumn 1997

What the Sixties Was, and Is

By Sanford Pinsker
ESSAYS / Summer 2002

Climbing Over the Ethnic Fence: Reflections on Stanley Crouch and Philip Roth

By Sanford Pinsker

As Stanley Crouch likes to tell the tale, he and Philip Roth were having dinner in an up-scale New York City restaurant one evening shortly before their respective novels—The Human Stain in Roth’s case, Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome in...

Autumn 1993

Is the Jewish-American Experience Over?

By Sanford Pinsker