Terrorist

...Towers," Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," Frederic Beigbeder's "Windows on the World," and John Updike's "Terrorist." We asked Versluys, a professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University in...

In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Falling Man, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, and Belgium

...that academic studies will strengthen his occasional religious doubt. Trucking is also the path that leads Ahmad toward involvement in a terrorist plot directed against the American "infidels" (non-Muslims) - an attempt to blow up the Lincoln...

In this article: God, Islam, Qu'ran, and Lincoln Tunnel

...where Updike continued to spend time as an adult, meticulously culling research that would be incorporated into his stories. For "Terrorist,'' his 2006 novel about the post-9/11 world - "a milieu he was not necessarily familiar with,'' Morris...

In this article: John Updike, Harvard University, Toyota, Rabbit, Run, Bracketing, and Cressida

...energy had not waned, even after 50 years writing. Last year he published The Widows of Eastwick, which was generally ill-recieved; 2006's Terrorist was lambasted by many former admirers. Yet there was still a recognition that even at his...

In this article: John Updike, Harper's Magazine, David Foster Wallace, Jimmy Carter, and Tanzania

...business, about fashion and interiors. And, in his later career, he chose to spread his wings. Novels such as Brazil and Terrorist saw him mount bold raids on settings and subjects that could hardly feel further from adultery and anger...

In this article: John Updike, Second World War, Couples, Brazil, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer

...1957 - he produced books in a wide variety of other settings also, including post-colonial Africa and the court of Hamlet. His last novel, Terrorist, published in 2006, journeyed through the mind of an Islamic extremist in urban New Jersey.

In this article: John Updike, Lung cancer, Hamlet, The Witches of Eastwick, Massachusetts, US, Self-consciousness, Nobel Prize, Asthma, and Psoriasis

...I remember his 1997 novel Toward the End of Time as bizarre and disjointed, falling back on his by-then well-worn themes of sex and death. Terrorist, released in 2006, was a valiant effort to try and get into the mind of a suicide bomber,...

In this article: John Updike, Coyote, Google search, New York Times Magazine, Toward the End of Time, The Witches of Eastwick, and The New York Times

...in this book, Sukie describes her earlier self as "desperate", making the link explicit. Given that in Updike's previous novel, Terrorist, he used a thriller plot and achieved a cultural impact that he has not had in some time, it seems...

In this article: John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, Martin Amis, Pumpkin, and Trademark

...of fairly lukewarm reviews for his novels in the past decade. In fact, he's received quite a few. I looked around. Of his 2006 novel, "Terrorist," for instance, James Wood wrote in the New Republic: "It is the otherness of Islamicism...

In this article: John Updike, The Widows of Eastwick, James Wood, George Soros, Los Angeles Times, The Witches of Eastwick, Islam, and New Republic

...bureaucratic nonsense and, after retiring, died in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The novel of the year is John Updike's "Terrorist," which explores the enormously neglected psycho-sexual dimension of the clash of civilizations.

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