The cover of Philip Roth’s new novel, The Plot Against America, has run up against the German government’s ban on any display of the swastika. The cover features a black stenciled swastika superimposed over a U.S. postage stamp. A shipment of the book was held up by customs at the German border last week, and the publisher announced that a new cover would be printed for the German market, with the swastika replaced by a black ‘X’.