Marco Roth

1 week ago | marcoroth.substack.com | Marco Roth

Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking. It was at Mercer Street Books, my second-to-last day back in New York. I was following my own rule of used bookstore browsing—"what catches the eye." My eyes and the rest of me got caught. I'd been thinking this was going to be my last time in the US for a good long while.

1 month ago | dispatch-media.com | Marco Roth

When many people I know from my old life in New York find out I've emigrated to Lisbon, they assume I did so for typically self-interested hipster reasons. As they see it, I am following a chain migration of gentrifiers that has made Lisbon housing unaffordable to most Portuguese earning an average wage.

Mar 27, 2025 | ijic.org | Marco Roth

Van Kemenade E, van der Vlegel-Brouwer W. Integrated care: a definition from the perspective of the four quality paradigms. Journal of Integrated Care. 2019; 27(4): 357–67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-06-2019-0029   Kodner DL, Spreeuwenberg C. Integrated care: meaning, logic, applications, and implications—a discussion paper. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2002; 2(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.67   Friedland R, Alford, RR.

Oct 7, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Marco Roth

Creation Lake is a novel that wants to be many contradictory things to many people all at the same time: It is a spy novel and a satire of a spy novel; a retro “novel of ideas” in a mid-20th-century style that’s also an absurdist postmodern novel of paranoia, floating signifiers, and randomness—an homage of sorts to Don DeLillo’s The Names.

Sep 16, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Marco Roth

The women are in their early thirties or late twenties. Both remain nameless. Their parents have died in separate car accidents. They live alone—a small apartment in Tel Aviv, a larger one bedroom in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. One has a brother who sends her money from their parents’ estate (“about twenty-eight million seven hundred and fifty-five thousand US dollars,” we’re told, without ever learning what the parents did to become millionaires).