He offers trenchant views on Monet (``painting Nature in her nudity''); John Singer... Updike's Tristan-and-Isolde tale of doomed lovers from opposite ends of Brazil's social stratum was a PW ...

But if formal realism is concerned with vivid characters and particular details, as Watt suggests, then there can be little doubt that John Updike is, by and large, a formal realist. Get access to the ...

It’s been more than a quarter-century since Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist of John Updike’s sweeping quartet of middle-class life in America, died in the final novel of the ...

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 ...

Watching him drive away, I thought of something novelist John Updike said about athletes, how retirement for an athlete was like a "little death." Yes, I thought. Updike had it right. And I knew ...

Serialised reading of John Updike's 1971 novel about quintessential American white middle class male Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Read by Toby Jones. Abridged by Eileen Horne.

A musical comedy by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe based on the John Updike novel which was made into a movie starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher, and Susan Sarandon. The story is set ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the ...

"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," ...