You can read the first part of Professor Geller’s long, thoughtful, beautifully-written essay, “ Where Could a Rabbit Run? What John Updike Shows About Marriage,” at my personal blog. What I am ...

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For most of the last half of the 20th century, few authors dominated America’s literary landscape like John Updike. Born in ...

From Selected Letters of John Updike, which will be published next month by Knopf. This letter, dated May 2, 1989, was a reply to Mark Thomashow, a Nike employee who had written to Updike after seeing ...

Many of Updike's reviews and short stories were published in The New Yorker, often edited by White's stepson, Roger Angell. By the end of the 1950s, Updike had published a story collection, a book of ...