The stacks at Harvard’s Widener Library are, I have come to believe, the best place to hide if you want to spend an afternoon reading uninterrupted but not alone. Widener has that rare charm conferred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isaac Updike of Ketchikan feels ready to compete against the best from around the globe at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships. The 33-year-old 3,000-meter steeplechase runner will be ...

Lillian Sturgis Updike, 97, passed away Sept. 22, 2024, in Brevard, NC, with her children at her side. She was born on August 9, 1927 in Ocala, Florida to Wallace Edwin Sturgis and Catherine ...

There’s way more queerness in the novel than the 1987 film, and it’s all problematic. I find my understanding of the book evolving every few years—how, for instance, would it read differently if it ...

“A man of no plausible address, with no apparent source for his considerable wealth, comes down the chimney after midnight while decent, law-abiding citizens are snug in their beds—is this not, at the ...

A modest white house with wood siding along Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington where John Updike spent most of his childhood is now home to Pennsylvania’s newest historical marker with Saturday’s ...

In 1990, when Rabbit at Rest was published to broad acclaim, ending John Updike’s magisterial Rabbit Angstrom quartet, Updike was arguably the most admired writer in the United States and also its ...

A slight stumble on the final water jump doused Alaska steeplechaser Isaac Updike’s bid for a Summer Olympics berth Friday at the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field. Updike, a 29-year-old from ...

OTHERS. THAT ONE IS HER FIRST BIRTHDAY. I DEFINITELY THOUGHT THAT SHE HAD THROWN ALL THAT CAKE ON THE FLOOR, BUT SHE ATE IT LIKE ALMOST THE ENTIRE BABY CAKE CHELSEA SEEMED TO DIG IN TO LIFE MOST ...