John Updike

Q&A: David Berman of the Silver Jews

The Lost Napkins of Leonardo Da Vinci

Is the future hiding somewhere in a 500-year-old notebook?

The Plot Against America

Updike: Is a nation of Snackwells addicts and belly-chain wearers worth saving?

Nightstand confessional

Updike: Is a nation of Snackwells addicts and belly-chain wearers worth saving?

Neil LaBute: Seconds of Pleasure

Updike: Is a nation of Snackwells addicts and belly-chain wearers worth saving?

Return to the Funnies

The art-comics scene of the moment looks a lot like...the 1930s

J-Kwon: Hood Hop

The art-comics scene of the moment looks a lot like...the 1930s

Real Life Rock Top 10

Special absurdity of the media present, ineffability of the aesthetic past edition

How Green Was My Lawn?

To be middle-aged and miserable in the suburbs: Chang-Rae Lee's 'Aloft'

The Best Years of Our Lives

They love their highballs and hate their wives: The miserable men of Richard Yates

The Long March

Kathryn Davis's The Walking Tour traces an errant vacation to the very roots of narrative

Kurt Vonnegut: Bagambo Snuff Box

Kathryn Davis's The Walking Tour traces an errant vacation to the very roots of narrative

Buried Alive

New fiction by Annie Proulx and Pat Barker delves into the dirt of memory and the legends of the land

Race Matters

Returning from exile and personal calamity, author Gayl Jones has created her own outlaw-in-training: a Baptist, Bud Light-drinking, stun-gun-toting, 6-foot-plus, African-American freelance trucker

Pizza Is Like Mother's Milk

Returning from exile and personal calamity, author Gayl Jones has created her own outlaw-in-training: a Baptist, Bud Light-drinking, stun-gun-toting, 6-foot-plus, African-American freelance trucker

Julia Kristeva: Possessions

Returning from exile and personal calamity, author Gayl Jones has created her own outlaw-in-training: a Baptist, Bud Light-drinking, stun-gun-toting, 6-foot-plus, African-American freelance trucker

John Updike: Towards the End of Time

Returning from exile and personal calamity, author Gayl Jones has created her own outlaw-in-training: a Baptist, Bud Light-drinking, stun-gun-toting, 6-foot-plus, African-American freelance trucker

John Dufresne Love Warps the Mind a Little

Returning from exile and personal calamity, author Gayl Jones has created her own outlaw-in-training: a Baptist, Bud Light-drinking, stun-gun-toting, 6-foot-plus, African-American freelance trucker

One Nation Under Glass

John Updike's 17th novel takes on a century of American dreams.