Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol

• Introduction 1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)Conclusion

Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol

• Introduction 1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)Conclusion

Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol

• Introduction 1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)Conclusion