"Magnificent ... splendid.... I hope
The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me."
–William Gass, The New York Times Book Review "Roth is a comic genius.... In this book (wonderfully sharp, worryingly intense) he is an electrifier."
–Martin Amis, The Atlantic "No other writer combines such a surface of colloquial relaxation and even dishevelment with such a dense load of mediating intelligence.... Roth has never written more scrupulously or, in spots, more lovingly."
–John Updike, The New Yorker