September 23, 2026

Solove on Philip Roth's Privacy Lesson in the Novel Operation Shylock

From Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School: A Privacy Torts Lessons from Philip Roth. It begins:


With its central theme of appropriating identity, Philip Roth’s novel Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) involves a fictional account of himself meeting a man impersonating him. Roth decides to impersonate his impersonator.


Link to the essay here. 

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