It's odd - this was written in the New Yorker, which, previously, had in my mind a reputation for doing astonishing amounts of fact checking. If anything, read

It's odd - this was written in the New Yorker, which, previously, had in my mind a reputation for doing astonishing amounts of fact checking. If anything, reading the two articles brings them down a notch in my mind. I'd like to see Phillip Roth's response to Oliver. Nice response though, even though it wasn't an official Wikipedia Response.