In January 1986, John Updike spoke at a PEN international writers’ congress in New York. He was well established as “America’s preeminent man of letters,” as Adam Begley describes him in ...

He offers trenchant views on Monet (``painting Nature in her nudity''); John Singer... Updike's Tristan-and-Isolde tale of doomed lovers from opposite ends of Brazil's social stratum was a PW ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttt8t.2 Blessed with multiple talents, prolific in their expression, John Updike is doubtless a prodigy. At a stage when ...