Two recent books, very different in subject and temperament, are concerned with how institutions such as sports gambling and ...

A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike ...

It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, 76, who has a long history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award ...

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures. By Dwight Garner Christopher Lasch’s “The Revolt of ...

The subject of John Updike's recent bestseller required that he contrast his own reliance on faith with the more violent faith of a young Islamic terrorist. This first of a two-part conversation ...

Author John Updike, the relentless chronicler of postwar America, has died. In his vast body of work, Updike probed the ordinary dramas that unfold in suburban and small-town America. He described his ...

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June 4, 2006 — -- The author and "New Yorker" contributor John Updike, who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his "Rabbit" series, has a surprise in store for his devoted fans. His ...

What everybody always comes back to is the style–that thing Updike did with words that other writers couldn’t. They loved it, they quoted it, they studied it, they tried to rip it off. Sometimes they ...

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