John Updike

...of the Year - for the full article, see this week's issue. JULIAN BARNES The main literary event of 2009 was the death of John Updike. Generous to the last, he left us two posthumous books: in prose, My Father's Tears, and in verse,...

In this article: Roberto Bolano, William Golding, and Samuel Beckett

...to comprehend it. Writers as various as Jay McInerney ("The Good Life"), Jonathan Safran Foer ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), John Updike ("Terrorist") and Andre Dubus III ("The Garden of Last Days") have tried working the events...

In this article: Terrorist, Iraq War, Alfred A. Knopf, Jay McInerney, and Suicide

...good stuff, with Philip Roth, Nick Cave and the ever-reliable Paul Theroux looking strong contenders. I had pressed for the late John Updike's inclusion (the prize can be awarded posthumously) only to be reminded that he had been given a...

In this article: Zadie Smith, NME, Dizzee Rascal, The Valley of Bones, Hilary Mantel, Anthony Powell, R&B, The Sun, and Denis Healey

"I don't sit weeping as I write," she retorts impatiently. On a more positive note, she recalls a review by John Updike, in which he wrote that she doesn't "belittle men, that she seems to really like men". Indeed, her chat is scattered...

In this article: Mavis Gallant, Paris, New York, Bread, New York Review of Books, Montreal, and Eudora Welty

...that he's a cynic. "Even the darkest writers are in fact lovers of life," he explains. "It's an amorous business, being a writer. Updike said of Nabokov, `His is essentially an amorous style.' "Put it this way. I have tremendous faith...

In this article: Martin Amis, Franz Kafka, Irrationality, Islam, Relativism, Josephine the Singer, Al Qaeda, and Toronto

...Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio Mishima, Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh... and Vladimir Nabokov? Their estates figure among the dozens administered by The...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura, Lolita, Kingsley Amis, Penguin, and Moniza Alvi

...in the Seventies, and created a literary agency in Japan in 1979, where he brought English language writers such as JG Ballard, John Updike and Helen Fielding to a Japanese audience. The one thing he could never sell in Japan was a coffee...

In this article: Japan, Plaintiff, Man Booker Prize, Helen Fielding, and JG Ballard

...before crawling off to the bushes to die. Whatever the problem, ABC has canceled Eastwick, the series loosely based on the John Updike novel The Witches of Eastwick. Thirteen episodes are already in the can and after they air, thata...

In this article: Dollhouse, Kelsey Grammer, Tru Calling, Southland, Frasier Crane, The Witches of Eastwick, Patricia Heaton, and Eliza Dushku

...for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," published by University of California Press. Past National Book Award winners include John Updike, Philip Roth and Ralph Ellison. In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for prizes. There...

In this article: New York City, Claudette Colvin, Cornelius Vanderbilt, National Book Award, Gore Vidal, Thomson Reuters, United States, and Rosa Parks

...and a few others working. Now what you're seeing is a broader spectrum working better.'' Novelist John Updike dead at 76 John Updike, contemporary literature's elder statesman of sexual liberation and suburban unease, died Tuesday of lung...

In this article: Stephenie Meyer, The Miami Herald, John Dufresne, Massachusetts, and Sandwich