Review: Writer reflects on his friendship with Philip Roth

“Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth.” by Benjamin Taylor (Penguin Books) For 20 years, Benjamin Taylor was a confidant of Philip Roth. Over the course of their friendship they talked often and intensely — about books, sex, fathers, food, politics, baseball, Jewishness and more. Crucially, Taylor was at his bedside in 2018, when Roth died of congestive heart failure at age 85. Now, the younger man, a noted author in his own right, has…