John Updike
Skin by Sergio del Molino review – a meditation on psoriasis and the psyche
A sufferer writes about how the skin condition affected figures as diverse as Joseph Stalin, John Updike and Cyndi Lauper
Houman Barekat
29, Oct, 2021 @6:30 AM
A new biography ‘unveils’ Philip Roth as a misogynist. Tell me something I don’t know | Hadley Freeman
The campaign to cancel the author is typical of today’s all-or-nothing approach, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, you can’t like anything
Hadley Freeman
03, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM
David Baddiel: 'I don't really have shame as an emotion'
The writer and comedian on admiring John Updike, crying over Station Eleven and laughing at Alan Partridge
David Baddiel
03, Jul, 2020 @9:00 AM
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
Guardian readers and Sam Jordison
22, Jun, 2020 @2:00 PM
'I wanted something 100% pornographic and 100% high art': the joy of writing about sex
As authors from Chaucer to Hollinghurst have shown, sex reveals our emotions, instincts and morals. The question is not why write about sex, claims author Garth Greenwell, it’s why write about anything else?
Garth Greenwell
08, May, 2020 @11:00 AM
Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy
From Graham Greene’s anguished transgressions to Milan Kundera’s happy-go-lucky erotic adventures, fiction has long adored illicit affairs
Douglas Kennedy
18, Dec, 2019 @10:54 AM
The Testaments, 34 years in the making: the longest gaps between sequels
The three decades between The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s much anticipated follow-up makes the wait for George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter seem brief
David Barnett
09, Sep, 2019 @12:13 PM
Book clinic: which authors can help me come to terms with getting older?
Novelist Deborah Moggach recommends writers who confront the passing of the years, from John Updike to Virginia Ironside
Deborah Moggach
29, Jun, 2019 @5:00 PM
Top 10 deaths in fiction
From Dickens to Woolf and Updike, novelists have taken on a dark but compelling challenge: to imagine their characters’ final experience
Thomas Maloney
31, Oct, 2018 @11:00 AM
The best tennis books: Benjamin Markovits serves up his favourites
As Wimbledon 2018 starts, the novelist tips books on Agassi and Federer – with a volley from Roth and Updike
Benjamin Markovits
02, Jul, 2018 @5:29 AM
Andrew Davies to defend John Updike with Rabbit TV series
TV writer tells Hay festival he aims to ‘wipe out’ idea Updike was a misogynist
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
27, May, 2018 @10:00 AM
Book clinic: which current authors produce the most magical prose?
The supernatural, witchcraft or sex can be spellbinding, while others conjure gold from the everyday human struggle
Amanda Craig
28, Apr, 2018 @5:00 PM
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