Shon Faye, author In Naomi Klein’s most recent book Doppelganger, she talks about Philip Roth quite a lot, which made me realise that though I read quite a lot of Roth as a teenager, I hadn’t read American Pastoral, which is often considered his greatest novel. So I read it and it was great – I had forgotten how funny Roth is. I also enjoyed Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, a completely different vibe. The short autofictional work is about an affair between the narrator, a divorced mother, and a younger married man, and the obsession and longing and lust...