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Louisa Thomas on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”
The article, about Ted Williams’s final game, was described as the best piece about baseball The New Yorker ever ...
A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker
An exhibition at the New York Public Library celebrates the magazine’s literary stars and unsung office heroes.
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Books by John Updike and Complete Book Reviews
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 ...
The American Conservative8y
Did John Updike Foresee the Trump Era?
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 ...
‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Shares ‘Most Exciting Interview Story Ever’
Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Wednesday, March 12, episode of Jeopardy!] Although there was a returning ...
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On the Sidewalk (After Reading, at Long Last, "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac)
John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century. He died in 2009. Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper ...
Opening Day is upon us, and the new baseball book ‘Justice Batted Last’ hits a homer
Another baseball season, heavy with hope, begins on March 17 with the first of two games between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers in, of all the “we are the world” places, Tokyo. What is ...
San Diego Reader8d
The story behind tomorrow's V.S. Naipaul interview
Tomorrow's interview with V.S. Naipaul by Judith Moore was one of many author interviews she conducted including ones with Richard Ford, T. C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Calvin Trillin, ...