Following the publication of the novelist’s letters, we count down the best of his books, from the dark magic of The Witches of Eastwick to the misadventures of Rabbit Angstrom ...

John Updike, let us hope, died more peacefully than his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Rabbit died about 19 years ago, when Rabbit at Rest was published. It has disturbed me ever since, quite ...

Donald Trump. Oprah Winfrey. Bill Cosby. Sexual misconduct. Substance abuse. Junk food. Those individual and subjects, and hundreds more cultural markers, are name-checked or delved into in John ...

LICKS OF LOVE: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered." By John Updike. Knopf, $25. It seems that for years John Updike has been undervalued as both a master craftsman and ingenious ...

EXCLUSIVE: John Updike’s controversial Rabbit, Run novels are to be adapted for television after War and Peace producer Lookout Point optioned the rights. The BBC Worldwide-backed production company ...

It should come as no surprise that the new decade finds Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom once again keeping time with death. It has always been one of his more familiar companions; it’s part of what gives him ...

It doesn’t take John Updike long to get around to sex. And why not. Sex, it seems, shares a twin bill with God as a central preoccupation of modern man, and certainly of the man to whose life story ...

John Updike wrote more than 25 novels and more than 30 collections of short stories, poetry, criticism and non-fiction. Here are his best-known works: Rabbit, Run (1960): The first of Updike’s four ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... John Updike, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in ...

Nelson Angstrom works as a mental health counselor in an Adult Day Treatment Center. On Christmas morning he learns that one of his clients, Michael DiLorenzo, has committed suicide in a desperate ...