Intricately wrought, passionate and fascinating... A late masterpiece

In Indignation, his power and intensity seem undiminished

He is a writer of quite extraordinary skill and courage

I relished Indignation. Roth writes with his trademark drive and fluency, on the knife blade between rage and laughter

Roth reasserts his fictional mastery with a fine taut narrative about the frustrations of youth...every part of it is dovetailed into a story of compelling economy...a mid-20th-century tale of nemesis with all the intellectual and imaginative force of a great novelist writing at the height of his powers

A gratifying novel... Indignation is, unquestionably, seriously "good" Roth

Roth's novels abound in comic moments, and so does Indignation...His powerful new novel seethes with outrage...a deft, gripping, and deeply moving narrative

Indignation ought to be required reading for presidential candidates

Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath

If I had to choose one word to sum up Indignation I'd go for classy. If were allowed two: very classy

Consummately elegant

He writes perceptively about the shift from self-absorbed teenager to adult.

If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed and as funny as Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel

It's one of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read

Irony and imagery are deployed with a finesse even Flaubert wouldn't wince at...consummately elegant