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A Privacy Torts Lesson from Philip Roth

Originally Posted on Substack 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. In one passage in the book, Roth provides a mini law lesson on the Warren and Brandeis privacy torts […]