Elegy (2008)
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of emancipated manhood, thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teache
Deception (2021)
An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up
The Human Stain (2003)
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years
The Prague Orgy (2019)
When a famous American writer accepts a quest from a Czech emigrant to bring him back unique Yiddish manuscripts, he accepts not only a dangerous journey to Prague, where he is watched at every step he makes by communist secret polic
The Humbling (2014)
A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman
Indignation (2016)
In 1951, Marcus, a working class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War
American Pastoral (2016)
An All American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of 60s America
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
An intelligent graduate and working class army veteran has an affair and clashes with a nouveau riche young woman, who does not care about birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy