Two recent books, very different in subject and temperament, are concerned with how institutions such as sports gambling and ...
In a 1989 memoir called “Self-Consciousness,” John Updike (1932-2009) remembered his childhood sense “of an embowering wide world arranged for my mystification and entertainment.” In many ways, this ...
The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently ...
A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike rarely confessed or confronted his own. One day in the fall of 1951, when he was ...
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