Philip Roth, Indignation (Houghton Mifflin, 256 pgs). The moment when you cease to see eye to eye with your folks; the overwhelming shock of college campus life; the initial sexual encounter: Philip Roth turns his unerring eye on Marcus Mesner, a “straight A student” buckling under the constraints of his father, a smotheringly vigilant Newark butcher, and the Midwestern university to which he’s fled. Roth goes to the heart of 20-something psychosis, the measuring up and that coming-of-age moment when youth sees the follies—and abuses—of their elders all too clearly. College life was never so foreboding, or familiar; Indignation is moving, economical and cuts like a knife.