John Updike

Bereft Bereft

Getting a note of appreciation from John Updike could buoy you up for weeks. Now who's left to bless us?
By Garrison Keillor Feb 4, 2009

  • John Updike, baseball writer

    It's not what he was known for -- outside diamond circles, anyway -- but the late author penned one of the game's literary gems.
    By King Kaufman January 27, 2009

  • Art for politics' sake

    By Ray Sawhill
    By   October 18, 2000

  • John Updike

    "Bech at Bay and Before"
    By John Updike October 5, 2000

  • Hugs 'n' drugs

    Mackenzie Phillips: "My father taught me how to shoot up"; Halle Berry: Why do bad drivers happen to good dogs? Plus: Mariah Carey says ninth-graders are hotter than she is!
    By Amy Reiter March 22, 2000

  • Turning out the lights on the old New Yorker

    Was it Utopia? Camelot? Paradise? Or does the possibility exist that, as fine as it once was, it was still just a magazine?
    By Gavin McNett February 17, 2000

  • The 7 vices of highly creative people

    If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
    By D.A. Blyler February 9, 2000

  • "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike

    In his 19th novel, Updike spins a tale of feverish and furtive sex and death in a masterly prequel to "Hamlet."
    By John Freeman February 9, 2000

  • Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges"

    "Bonfire of the Vanities" author fans literary feud.
    By Craig Offman January 21, 2000

  • Hugh Hefner

    The 20th century's indefatigable swinger is still mixing martinis, cavorting with naked women, encouraging men to play indoors and reinventing himself.
    By Chris Colin December 28, 1999

  • Updike and Parini trade slaps on review pages

    Dueling men of letters fail to reveal conflict of interest.
    By Craig Offman December 23, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Schoolyard cowboys don't know guns aren't toys; don't let a man (even Updike) pick the best romances.
    Letters to the Editor June 8, 1999

  • Updike in love

    The author of "Rabbit, Run" picks the five greatest novels about romance.
    By John Updike May 24, 1999

  • Turning the tables on Terry Gross

    Salon gets personal with NPR's Maestro of conversation.
    By Lori Leibovich June 22, 1998

  • The year in books

    Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
    By Dwight Garner December 24, 1997

  • rub me! truss me! eat me!

    FOOD MAGAZINES GO ALL OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS; UPDIKE'S HEAVY BREATHING IN THE NYRB.
    By James Poniewozik November 19, 1997

  • Media Circus: What's Up, Dike?

    Why should John Updike be the only writer who gets to begin Amazon.com's collaborative story?
    By David Rakoff August 12, 1997
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