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Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy
Arts & Letters Daily|3/28/2026
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The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing
Arts & Letters Daily|3/13/2026
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"It’s weird: in Updike’s teenage letters he sounds preternaturally sophisticated; in his forties, he sounds like a horny kid"
Arts & Letters Daily|2/23/2026
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The epistolary Updike was open, amiable, self-assured, wonderfully lucid, and brilliantly organized. He was also emotionally impenetrable
Arts & Letters Daily|1/24/2026