John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century. He died in 2009. The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S. Though Margaret ...

Watching the 2003 interview I did with John Updike, who died this week, brought back very warm memories about the man and a very special day. Whenever we have the opportunity to travel and visit ...

It’s been more than a quarter-century since Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist of John Updike’s sweeping ... explosive point at the polls this November. They represent an economic ...

Self-Consciousness by John Updike (Random House, $16). Would Updike have been such a fabulous writer if he weren't afflicted with terrible psoriasis? And a stutter? According to Updike ...

John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century. He died in 2009. A middle-aged, murderous Tom Ripley; a boozy, stagestruck Mary Todd Lincoln ...

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," ...