By an accident of fate, I recently found myself reading a couple of previously unread (by me) Philip Roth novels just as New York Times columnist David Brooks was wondering why we didn’t have any Philip Roths anymore. During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The Ghost Writer” (1979), “Zuckerman Unbound” (1981) and “The Anatomy Lesson” (1983), along with a novella “The Prague Orgy” (1985). On the first page of “The Ghost Writer,” the protagonist, Nathan...