A Revised Cumulative Updike Publications Bibliography 1997-2008--Books, Short Stories, Articles, Reviews, and Poems
By Date and By Title for Each Category
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This cumulative though partial bibliography is based largely but not exclusively on Updike's publications with Knopf, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. It has been supplemented, especially in the poetry section, by regular information contributions from page readers, particularly by Gary Kass. This means the bibliography is partial and not complete. For a complete and cross-referenced bibliography from 1994 to the present we will have to wait on the labors and expanded bibliography to be produced by Jack De Bellis--the dean of this task. (See his John Updike: A Bibliography, 1967-1993 [Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1994]). The materials here date from the initial appearance of The Centaurian John Updike Website in 1997. The bibliography is offered as a limited but hopefully useful resource for page readers, particularly students and general readers looking for recent Updike publication materials.
The date sequence entries are done by year and by day and month publication, if all that is known. Sometimes the date is by season, such as "Fall" or "Autumn or Spring." These items are listed at the beginning of the traditional month section when these seasons arrive.
The title entries are arranged alphabetically, but ignoring "a," "an," and "the" as prefixes in titles. Updike's essay reviews of art exhibits are placed in the articles section.
I welcome supplementary entries from page readers for these years. Be sure to give the full citation data so the format will be consistent. I especially want to thank Duncan Brockway for his capable assistance in bringing this bibliography up-to-date with more specific details and additional items. There is more information from him that has yet to be entered.
Dr. James Yerkes
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[Photographs below courtesy of Martha Updike/Alfred A. Knopf]
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Updike Books
Books By Date
1997
Toward the End of Time. New York: Knopf, 1997. Pp. 334. ISBN 0-375-40006-0. First Ballantine Books Edition: September 1998: New York: Fawcett Columbine, The Balllantine Publishng Group,1998, 334 p. ISBN 0-449-00041-9
1998
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel. New York: Knopf, 1998. First Ballantine Edition October 1998: New York: Fawcett Books,1998; 241 p. ISBN 0-449-00404-x
A Century of Arts & Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts & Letters as Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members. Ed. John Updike. Illustrated. Pp. 346. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Special Booklet Item:
Of Prizes and Print, subtitled, "Remarks Delivered on the Occasion of His Receiving the 1998 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters." New York: Knopf, 1998.
1999
The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Edited by Updike and co-edited by Katrina Kenison. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. ISBN 0-395-843368-5. Pp. vi-776. Expanded paperback edition (April 20, 2000) Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap); ISBN: 0395843677. Includes the year 2000 short story by Pam Houston, "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" (pp. 269-288).
A Child's Calendar. Illustrations by Trina Scharet Hyman. New York: Holiday House, 1999. ISBN: 0-8234-1445-0. Reprint of the 1965 edition with some text changes in some poems and with the new illustrator.
More Matter: Essays and Criticism. New York: Knopf ,1999. ISBN: 0-375-40630-1. Pp. 900. First Fawcett Books Edition October 2000: New York, Fawcett Books; The Ballentine Publishing Group, 2000; xxiii, 900 p. ISBN 0-449-00628-x
On Literary Biography. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, 1999; Pp. 43; ISBN 1-57003-345-5. Dated 1999, but only distributed in March 2000.
2000
Buchanan Dying. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000; ISBN: 0811702383. Pp. 288. Published in August 2000. Reprint of the 1974 edition with a new Foreword.
Gertrude and Claudius. New York: Knopf, 2000; ISBN 0-375-40908-4. Pp. 212. Published mid-February ostensibly to coincide with Valentine's Day. First Ballantine Books Trade Edition July 2001: New York, Ballantine Books, 2001; 212 p. ISBN 0-449-00697-2
Humor in Fiction. Lord John Press (2000), 19073 Los Alimos Street, Northridge, CA, 91326. ISBN: 0-935716-92-0; 33 pages. Foreword by Updike. The publishing data is noted as follows: "This the first edition of HUMOR IN FICTION is limited to one hundred numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies speciall bound, all of which have been signed by the author."
Just Looking: Essays on Art . Second edition. Boston: Museum of Fine Art Publication: 2000. ISBN 0-87846-577-4 U.S. $24.95. Paperback, 8 x 10 in., 224 pgs. Paperback. 117 color and 77 b&w. Item A20041. Published December 2000.
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered." New York: Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0-375-41113-5 . Pp. 359. Published 7 November. The numbered (total published 1650), signed, leather-bound Easton Press edition was published mid-March 2001, but carries the 2000 copyright date. Also, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel. Easton Press, Norwalk, CN. $69.00; a special edition signed, numbered (1650 total), and leather-bound. Published March 2001, though it remains copyright-dated as 2000. The Ballantine Books paperback edition (ISBN 0345442016) was published 27 November 2001.
2001
Americana and Other Poems. New York: Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0-375-41254-9; 112 pages. $23.00. The following poems, in order, some in special editions, some published earlier and some unpublished, are included in the book:
Section I
"Americana," "Island Cities," "Phoenix," "Atlanta--Dallas/Fort Worth, 11:10 P.M.," "On the Road," "Bad Night in New York State," "The Overhead Rack," "Icarus," "Corpus Christi," "New Orleans," "Corinth, MS," "Reading, PA," "Near Clifton, Perhaps," "New York City," "Flight to Limbo."
Section II
"Before the Mirror," "The Hedge," "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington," "61 and Some," "Vero Beach Birthday," "Upon Becoming a Senior Citizen," "A Wound Posthumously Inflicted," "On the Nearly Simultaneous Deaths of Harold Brodkey and Joseph Brodsky," "One Tough Keratosis," "Ocular Hypertension," To Two of My Characters," "Reality," "Downtime."
Section III
"To a Skylark," "Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998," "Prague, Again," "The Witnesses," "Piet," "Beauvais," "Two Cunts in Paris," "Death in Venice," "Orvieto," "Jacopo Pontormo," "Venetian Candy," "Hiroshima, 2000," "At the Miho Museum," "Shinto," "A Brazilian Valentine," "Pura Vida," "Subtropical Night," "Boca Grande Sunset."
Section IV
"Song of Myself," "December Sun," "A Rescue," "Replacing Sash Cords," "Radiators," "Slum Lords," "Money," "Bridge," "Transparent Stratagems," "Montes Veneris," "Rainbow," "Chicory," "Jesus and Elvis," "Religious Consolation," "Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children," "A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ's Nativity."
The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories. Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. (Knopf, 2001; Everyman's Library, 264) ISBN: 0375411763; 512 pages. $23.00.
2002
The Diary of Adam and Eve: And Other Adamic Stories. By Mark Twain, with a Foreword by John Updike. Hesperus Press: September 2002. (Paperback [95 pages] ISBN 1843910055). Their website says publication date is July 2002.
Seek My Face. New York: Knopf, 2002. Pp. 276. (ISBN 0-375-41490-8; 276 pages, $23.00) Published12 November 2002.
Three Stories. With photographs by Mariana Cook. 8vo., marble endpapers, black morrocan goatskin, in velvet-lined black linen case, limited to 250 signed copies. N.Y.: Thornwillow Press, 2002. The book actually was not released until late February 2003.
2003
Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems, edited and with a Foreword by John Updike (The American Poets Project, 3), 27 January 2003, The Library of America ISBN: 1931082340. Hardcover 225 pages.
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau. Barbara Wright Trans. Introduction by John Updike. New York Review Books Classics. Paperback: 200 pages ISBN: 159017030X; February 2003.
Americans, edited by Carolyn Kinder Carr and Charles Saumarez Smith, with a Foreword by John Updike. Published by Watson-Guptill (ISBN: 0-8230-0330-2) April 2003.
The Rich Boy. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Foreword by John Updike. Hesperus Press, UK: June 2003. ISBN: 1843910454. Paperback112 pages.
Wolf Kahn's America: An Artist's Travels. Introduction by John Updike. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003 (September).
The Early Stories, 1953-1975 published by Knopf in October 2003.
Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art. Foreword by John Updike. New York: Random House, 2003. 320 pp. Published October 28. ISBN: 1400061407.
Not Cancelled Yet. Limberlost Press in Boise, Idaho, published a special edition book of thirteen poems, 100 copies of which were signed and specially bound in hard covers (ISBN 0-931659-88-4) and 700 were hand sewn in paper (ISBN 0-931659-87-6). Some of these poems were published earlier but three were not. The abbreviation (Unp) appears by those three published here for the first time.
"March Birthday, and After," "An Hour without Color," "Levels of Air," "To a Well-Connected Mouse," "Epithalamium" (Unp), "Trees," "Waco," "White Horizon" (Unp), "Stolen," "3/18/03" (Unp), "Tools," "Chambered Nautilus," "Not Cancelled Yet."
2004
Villages: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 2004. Pp. 336. (ISBN: 1400042909; $25.00) Published19 October 2004.
2005
Three Trips: The Short-Story Writer as Tourist. UK: Penguin Books. Pp.64. 6 May 2205. ISBN: 0141023090.
Trio. By Robert Pinget. Introduction by John Updike. Barbara Wright, Translator. Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. Paperback. Pp. 229. $25.00. ISBN: 1564784088 (October).
Still Looking: Essays in American Art. New York: Knopf. Pp. 288. $40.00, ISBN 1-4000-4418-9. November 14.
2006
Terrorist. New York: Knopf. Pp. 320. 6 June 2006. ISBN: 0307264653.
In Love With A Wanton: Essays on Golf. Illustrations by Tania Lee. New York: Thornwillow Press, 2006. Limited Edition of 250 copies.
2007
Due Considerations: Essays and Critcism. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. 732. $40.00. With 25 text illustrations. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-307-26640-8 * 0-307-26640-0 (Canada: $50.00). Publication date 23 October 2007.
Books By Title
Americana and Other Poems. New York: Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0-375-41254-9; 112 pages. $23.00
Americans, edited by Carolyn Kinder Carr and Charles Saumarez Smith, with a Foreword by John Updike. To be published by Watson-Guptill (ISBN: 0-8230-0330-2) April 2003.
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel. New York: Knopf, 1998. First Ballantine Edition October 1998: New York: Fawcett Books,1998; 241 p. ISBN 0-449-00404-x
The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Edited by Updike and co-edited by Katrina Kenison. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. ISBN 0-395-843368-5. Pp. vi-776. Expanded paperback edition (April 20, 2000) Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap); ISBN: 0395843677. Includes the year 2000 short story by Pam Houston, "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" (pp. 269-288).
Buchanan Dying. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000; ISBN: 0811702383. Pp. 288. Published in August 2000. Reprint of the 1974 edition with a new Foreword.
The Early Stories, 1953-1975 will be published by Knopf in October 2003.
A Century of Arts & Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts & Letters as Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members. Ed. John Updike. Illustrated. Pp. 346. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
A Child's Calendar. Illustrations by Trina Scharet Hyman. New York: Holiday House, 1999. ISBN: 0-8234-1445-0. Reprint of the 1965 edition with some text changes in some poems and with the new illustrator.
Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art. Foreword by John Updike. New York: Random House, 2003. 320 pp. Published October 28. ISBN: 1400061407
The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories. Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. (Knopf, 2001; Everyman's Library, 264) ISBN: 0375411763; 512 pages. $23.00.
The Diary of Adam and Eve: And Other Adamic Stories. By Mark Twain, with a Foreword by John Updike. Hesperus Press: September 2002. (Paperback [95 pages] ISBN 1843910055). Their website says publication date is July 2002.
Due Considerations: Essays and Critcism. New York: Knopf, 2007. Pp. 732. $40.00. With 25 text illustrations. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-307-26640-8 * 0-307-26640-0 (Canada: $50.00). Publication date 23 October 2007.
Gertrude and Claudius. New York: Knopf, 2000; ISBN 0-375-40908-4. Pp. 212. Published mid-February ostensibly to coincide with Valentine's Day. First Ballantine Books Trade Edition July 2001: New York, Ballantine Books, 2001; 212 p. ISBN 0-449-00697-2
Humor in Fiction. Lord John Press, 19073 Los Alimos Street, Northridge, CA, 91326. ISBN: 0-935716-92-0; 33 pages. Foreword by Updike. The publishing data is noted as follows: "This the first edition of HUMOR IN FICTION is limited to one hundred numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies speciall bound, all of which have been signed by the author."
In Love With A Wanton: Essays on Golf. Illustrations by Tania Lee. New York: Thornwillow Press, 2006. Limited Edition of 250 copies.
Just Looking: Essays on Art . Second edition. Boston: Museum of Fine Art Publication: 2000. ISBN 0-87846-577-4 U.S. $24.95. Paperback, 8 x 10 in., 224 pgs. Paperback. 117 color and 77 b&w. Item A20041. Published December 2000.
Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems, edited and with a Foreword by John Updike (The American Poets Project, 3), 27 January 2003, The Library of America ISBN: 1931082340. Hardcover 225 pages.
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" New York: Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0-375-41113-5 . Pp. 359. Published 7 November. The numbered (total published 1650), signed, leather-bound Easton Press edition was published mid-March 2001, but carries the 2000 copyright date. Also, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel. Easton Press, Norwalk, CN. $69.00; a special edition signed, numbered (1650 total), and leather-bound. Published March 2001, though it remains copyright-dated as 2000. The Ballantine Books paperback edition (ISBN 0345442016) was published 27 November 2001.
More Matter: Essays and Criticism. New York: Knopf ,1999. ISBN: 0-375-40630-1. Pp. 900. First Fawcett Books Edition October 2000: New York, Fawcett Books; The Ballentine Publishing Group, 2000; xxiii, 900 p. ISBN 0-449-00628-x
Not Cancelled Yet. Limberlost Press in Boise, Idaho, published a special edition book of thirteen poems, 100 copies of which were signed and specially bound in hard covers (ISBN 0-931659-88-4) and 700 were hand sewn in paper (ISBN 0-931659-87-6).
On Literary Biography. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, 1999; Pp. 43; ISBN 1-57003-345-5. Dated 1999, but only distributed in March 2000.
The Rich Boy. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Foreword by John Updike. Hesperus Press, UK: June 2003. ISBN: 1843910454. Paperback112 pages.
Seek My Face. New York: Knopf, 2002. Pp. 276. (ISBN 0-375-41490-8; 276 pages, $23.00) Published12 November 2002.
Still Looking: Essays in American Art. New York: Knopf. Pp. 288. $40.00, ISBN 1-4000-4418-9. November 2005.
Terrorist. New York: Knopf. Pp. 320. 6 June 2006. ISBN: 0307264653. (Forthcoming)
Three Stories. With photographs by Mariana Cook. 8vo., marble endpapers, black morrocan goatskin, in velvet-lined black linen case, limited to 250 signed copies. N.Y.: Thornwillow Press, 2002. The book actually was not released until late February 2003.
Three Trips: The Short-Story Writer as Tourist. UK: Penguin Books, (6 May) 2005. Pp.64. ISBN: 0141023090.
Toward the End of Time. New York: Knopf, 1997. Pp. 334. ISBN 0-375-40006-0. First Ballantine Books Edition: September 1998: New York: Fawcett Columbine, The Balllantine Publishng Group,1998, 334 p. ISBN 0-449-00041-9.
Villages: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 2004. Pp. 336. (ISBN: 1400042909; $25.00) Published19 October 2004.
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau. Barbara Wright Trans. Introduction by John Updike. New York Review Books Classics. Paperback: 200 pages ISBN: 159017030X; February 2003.
Wolf Kahn's America: An Artist's Travels. Introduction by John Updike. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003 (September).
Updike Short Stories
Short Stories By Date
1997
"My Father on the Verge of Disgrace." The New Yorker, 10 March 1997: 80-85.
1998
"Natural Color." The New Yorker, 23 March 1998: 82-85.
"Oliver's Story." Esquire Magazine, April 1998: 148.
"Bech Noir." The New Yorker, 8 June1998: 68-79.
1999
"His Oeuvre." The New Yorker, 25 January 1999: 74-81. Chapter from Bech at Bay.
"Questions of Character: There's No Ego as Wounded as a Wounded Alter Ego." The New York Times, 1 March 1999: E1,7. The third spoofing interview of Updike by his Jewish alter-ego Henry Bech.
"How Was It, Really?" The New Yorker , 17 May 1999: 78-83. Subtitled, "Theirs was the last divorce of all."
"Metamorphosis," The New Yorker, 9 August 1999: 66-70.
2000
"Personal Archeology," The New Yorker, 29 May 2000: 124-127.
"Nelson and Annabelle (Part 1)." The New Yorker, 2 October 2000: 88-103.
"Nelson and Annabelle (Part 2)." The New Yorker, 9 October 2000: 62-81.
2001
"Free." The New Yorker, 8 January 2001: 74-77.
"The Guardians." The New Yorker, 26 March 2001: 82-85.
2002
"The Laughter of the Gods." The New Yorker, 11 February 2002: 76-81.
"Spanish Prelude to a Second Marriage." Harper's Magazine, October 2002: 71-75.
"Varieties of Religious Experience." The Atlantic Monthly, November 2002: 93-96, 98-100, 102-104. This story is currently (10-17-02) available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/updike.htm
"Sin: Early Impressions," The New Yorker, 9 December 2002: 110-113, 116, 118-120.
2003
"The Walk with Elizanne," The New Yorker, 7 July 2003: 66-71.
2004
"Delicate Wives." The New Yorker, 2 February 2004: 76-79.
"Elsie by Starlight." The New Yorker, 5 July 2004: 81-87.
"The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe." Harper's Magazine, October 2004, v309, n1853: 71-76.
2005
"The Roads of Home." The New Yorker, 7 February 2005: 74-81.
2006
"German Lessons," Playboy Magazine, January 2006, Vol. 53, No. 1: 81-82; 148-150.
"My Father's Tears," The New Yorker, 27 February 2006: 70-76.
"Kinderscenen," Harper's Magazine, Vol. 313, Issue 1879, December 2006: 79-84.
2007
"The Apparition," The Atlantic Monthly, Summer Fiction Issue 2007: 10-13, 14, 16.
2008
"Blue Light," Playboy, January 2008: 70-72; 156-160.
"Outage," The New Yorker, 7 January 2008: 66-70.
Short Stories By Title
"The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe." Harper's Magazine, October 2004, v309, n1853, pages 71-76.
"The Apparition," The Atlantic Monthly, Summer Fiction Issue 2007: 10-13, 14, 16.
"Bech Noir." The New Yorker, 8 June1998: 68-79.
"Blue Light," Playboy, January 2008: 70-72; 156-160.
"Delicate Wives." The New Yorker, 2 February 2004: 76-79.
"Elsie by Starlight." The New Yorker, 5 July 2004: 81-87.
"Free." The New Yorker, 8 January 2001: 74-77.
"The Guardians." The New Yorker, 26 March 2001: 82-85.
"German Lessons," Playboy Magazine, January 2006, Vol. 53, No. 1: 81-82; 148-150.
"His Oeuvre." The New Yorker, 25 January 1999: 74-81. Chapter from Bech at Bay.
"How Was It, Really?" The New Yorker , 17 May 1999: 78-83. Subtitled, "Theirs was the last divorce of all."
"Kinderscenen," Harper's Magazine, Vol. 313, Issue 1879, December 2006: 79-84.
"The Laughter of the Gods." The New Yorker, 11 February 2002: 76-81.
"Metamorphosis," The New Yorker, 9 August 1999: 66-70.
"My Father on the Verge of Disgrace." The New Yorker, 10 March 1997: 80-85.
"My Father's Tears." The New Yorker, 27 February 2006: 70-76.
"Natural Color." The New Yorker, 23 March 1998: 82-85.
"Nelson and Annabelle (Part 1)." The New Yorker, 2 October 2000: 88-103.
"Nelson and Annabelle (Part 2)." The New Yorker, 9 October 2000: 62-81.
"Oliver's Story." Esquire Magazine, April 1998: 148.
"Outage," The New Yorker, 7 January 2008: 66-70.
"Personal Archeology," The New Yorker, 29 May 2000: 124-127.
"Questions of Character: There's No Ego as Wounded as a Wounded Alter Ego." The New York Times, 1 March 1999: E1,7. The third spoofing interview of Updike by his Jewish alter-ego Henry Bech.
"The Roads of Home." The New Yorker, 7 February 2005: 74-81.
"Sin: Early Impressions," The New Yorker, 9 December 2002: 110-113, 116, 118-120.
"Spanish Prelude to a Second Marriage." Harper's Magazine, October 2002: 71-75.
"Varieties of Religious Experience." The Atlantic Monthly, November 2002: 93-96, 98-100, 102-104.
"The Walk with Elizanne," The New Yorker, 7 July 2003: 66-71.
Updike Articles
Articles By Date
1997
"The Nude Marilyn." Playboy, 9 January 1997: 68, 70, 79, 81-83.
"Manhatten Transfer." The New Yorker, 20 January 1997: 43. In Talk of the Town.
"Me and My Books: How Did They Assume a Life of Their Own?" The New Yorker, 3 February 1997: 38-39.
"Car Talk." The New Yorker, 31 March 1997: 108.
"On 'The Seducer's Diary' in Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843)," The New York Review of Books, 29 May 1997: 27-28.
"Malgudi's Master." The New Yorker, 23 &30 June 1997: 134. Comments on Indian writer R. K. Narayan.
"A Writer at Large." The New Yorker, 29 September 1997: 31-32. Subtitled, "Naked came the stranger to a mystery plot in cyberspace." In The Talk of the Town.
"An Appetite for Truth: On Melville's Shorter Fiction." The Yale Review 85: No. 4 (October 1997): 25-47.
"The Prodigal Sun," Allure Magazine, October 1997: ____.
"Can Genitals Be Beautiful?" The New York Review of Books, 4 December 1997: 10,12. Essay review of Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna (The New York Museum of Modern Art, 12 October 1997 to 4 January 1998).
"Lost Art." The New Yorker, 15 December 1997: 75-80. Subtitled, "What the author wanted to be before he decided to become a writer."
"Christmas Cards." The New Yorker, 22-29 December 1997: 110-111.
1998
"Citizen Gill." The New Yorker, 12 January 1998: 70. Subtitled, "Remembering the Quintessential New Yorker." One of a series of contributions remembering Brendan Gill.
"War on West 155th Street." The London Times Literary Supplement Commentary Section, 27 February 1998: 13-15. An article with the subtitle, "The Great Row inside the American Academy and the resignation of Ezra Pound".
"Arthur Dove: A Retrospective." The New York Review of Books, 5 March 1998: 14-16. The Whitney Museum Exhibit. Essay review on the exhibit, "Pioneer," or as the front page says, "The Pioneer of Abstractionism."
"Immortal Isaac." The New Yorker, 30 March 1998: 114-122. Subtitled, "What Newton's mind teaches about the pace of science."
"Eye on Celebrity." The New York Review of Books, 25 June 1998: 4-5, 8. Essay review of an exhibit at The National Portrait Gallery with the theme is Celebrity Caricature in America.
"Personal History." The New Yorker, 7-14 December 1998: 82-99. Report on a trip to China.
1999
"One Cheer for Literary Biography." The New York Review of Books, 4 February 1999: 3-5.
"More Light on Delft." The New York Review of Books, 18 February 1999: 11-12. Essay review of the Pieter de Hooch painting exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CN.
"A Sense of Change." The New Yorker, April 26 & May 3, 1999: 83-87.
"On Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)." The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1999:12-13.
"Magnum Opus." The New Yorker 12 July 1999: 74-78. Subtitled, "At E. B. White's centennial, Charlotte spins on." Under A Critic at Large.
"Comment." (re John F. Kennedy, Jr.) The New Yorker, 2 August 1999:23-24. "The Talk of the Town" comment regarding John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s life and death.
"Evangel of the Lens." The New York Review of Books, 12 August 1999: 19-21. Essay review of photographer Alfred Stieglitz in a second edition of Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, edited by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, with an introduction by Sara Greenough (National Gallery of Art/Bulfinch Press/Little Brown) and Stieglitz, O'Keefe & American Modernism, by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Amy Ellis, with Maura Lyons, catalog of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, April 16-July 11,1999 (Wadsworth Atheneum).
"My Life in Cars," Architectural Digest Motoring (Supplement to Architectural Digest) October 1999: 28, 30, 32.
"The Future of Faith." The New Yorker, 29 November 1999: 84-91.
"On 'The Portrait of a Lady'." The New York Review of Books, 2 December 1999: 20, 22.
"Looking Back to Now." The New York Times, 12 December 1999: 5. "Week in Review" Section, Op-Ed Page.
2000
"A Layman's Scope." Natural History, February 2000: 102.
"A Wistful Master." The New York Review of Books, 13 April 2000: 18-20. A review of the Tilman Riemenschneider sculptures, on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York February 10-May 14, 2000.
"Books Unbound, Life Unraveled." The New York Times, Op-Ed Week in Review Section, 18 June 2000: 15.
"An Ode to Golf." The New Yorker, 31 July 2000: 25.
"'Nature Itself'." The New York Review of Books, 10 August 2000: 8-10. An essay review of the Jean-Simeon Chardin exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 27-September 23, 2000.
"Maxwell's Touch." The New Yorker, 14 August 2000:29 (The Talk of the Town)
"'Island Cities': Commentary by the Author." The Literary Review, Fall 2000: 185-191.
"The Tried and Tréowe." Forbes ASAP Magazine, 2 October 2000: 201, 215.
"Dancing To His Own Tune." New York Review of Books, 19 October 2000. This essay will appear as the introduction to a new edition of Max Beerbohm's book, Seven Men, which was originally published in 1919. This new edition is published by The New York Review Books. Introduction by John Updike. New York: New York Review Books, 2000 xiii, 208 p. ISBN 0-940322-54-4
"Dürer and Christ." The New York Review of Books, 2 November 2000: 17-18. Essay review of the Dürer's Passions exhibit at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge September 3-December 9, 2000.
2001
"Lear, Far and Near." The New York Review of Books, 11 January 2001: 6, 8-9. An essay review of the "Edward Lear and the Art of Travel" exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 20 September 2000-14 January 2001.
"Medieval Superheroes." The New York Times Book Review, 28 January 2001: 27. Adaptation of the Preface to a new edition of The Mabinogion, translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones and a Preface by John Updike. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, xliii, 259 p Everyman’s Library, ISBN 168 0-375-41175-5.
"Never to sleep, always to dream." Golf Digest, March 2001: 124-126.
"Early Inklings." The New Yorker, 23-30 April 2001: 173. One of five short essays by writers about their "First Jobs."
"'Therefore I Print'." The New York Review of Books, 17 May 2001: 9-10, 12. A review of the William Blake exhibit at the Metroplotian Museum of Art, March 29-June 24.
"The Imaginary Builder." The New York Review of Books, 21 June 2001: 24, 26. A review of the "Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy" exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, showing from April 7 to September 9, 2001.
"Hawthorne Down on the Farm," The New York Review of Books, 8 August 2001: 48-49. Text of Updike's "Introduction" for the new Modern Library Classics paperback edition of Hawthorne's novel, The Blithedale Romance, published 14 August 2001.
"Comment." (re World Trade Center terrorist attack). The New Yorker, 24 September 2001: 28-29. "The Talk of the Town" comment in the aftermath of the NYC attack.
"The Thing Itself," The New York Review of Books, 29 November 2001:10, 12. Updike's review of the Pieter Bruegel drawings and prints exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 25-December 2, 2001.
2002
"New Kind on the Block." The New York Review of Books, 14 February 2002: 25-28.
"Hyman Bloom." Havard Review, Spring 2002, No. 2: 65. Comment on his Harvard art teacher in connection with a retrospective of Bloom's work opening 2 October 2002 at the National Academy of Design in New York.
"O Beautiful for Spacious Skies." The New York Review of Books, 15 August 2002: 26-28. This review focuses on the catalog of the exhibition by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer (Princeton University Press, 284 pp., $49.95 ), an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 17–August 25, 2002.
"(Fear of) Swimming." Outside Magazine, September 2002, Vol. 27, Issue 9: 76-78.
"The Batter Who Mattered." The New York Times Magazine, Section Four, 29 December 2002:30-31.
2003
"'A Lone Left Thing'." The New York Review of Books, 27 February 2003: 4, 6-7. A review of the Marsden Hartley Exhibit at the Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CN, January 17-April 23, 2003.
"The thing poet: on the life and rime of Karl Shapiro."Harper's Magazine, March 2003 (Vol. 306, No. 1834): 77-81.
"Andy Warhol." Rolling Stone Magazine, 15 May 2003: 112.
"Logic Is Beautiful." The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2003: 16, 18. A review of the exhibition and the catalog of the Elie Nadelman sculptures presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York April 3-July 20, 2003.
"Singular in Everything." The New York Review of Books, 6 November 2003 and 40th Anniversary Edition: 14, 18. A review of the El Greco exhibition and catalog shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 7 October 2003 to 11 January 2004.
"Chasing After Providence." The New York Review of Books, 4 December 2003: 35-36. Commentary on Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day (1967).
2004
"Street Arab." The New York Review of Books, Volume 51, Number 12, 15 July 2004: 10, 12. A review of "Childe Hassam, American Impressionist," an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10-September 12, 2004.
"Oil on Canvas."The American Scholar, Autumn 2004, Vol. 73, Issue 4: 40-43. The article contains a reproduction of the Alice W. Davis painting by that title. The article is taken, the title page footnote observes, from the Introduction to a new book of art reviews titled Still Looking which Knopf will publish sometime in 2005.
"Poker: A Love Story." Life Magazine, 5 November 2004: 14-15. The subtitle is "Why is poker so popular? A man who has played for half a century explains the secret pleaures of the game."
"Invisible Cathedral." The New Yorker, (15 November 2004: 106-110). A walking tour through the new Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
"Libido Lite." The New York Review of Books, Volume 51, Number 18, 18 November 2004: 30-31. Commentary on James Thurber's and E. B. White's 1929 book, "Is Sex Necessary?"
"Making Faces." The New York Review of Books, Number 19, 2 December 2004: 4, 6. A review article of the Gilbert Stuart Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 21, 2004–January 16, 2005, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 27–July 31, 2005.
2005
"Beyond Real." The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2005: 4, 6-7. A review of the Max Ernst exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art held April 7 to July 10, 2005.
"Summer lovin'," LIFE, 1 July 2005: 14. A short commentary on the joys of summer.
"Determined Spirit." The New York Review of Books, Vol. 52, No. 19, 1 December 2005: 13-14. A review of the Vincent Van Gogh drawings and paintings at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing October 18 to December 31, 2005.
2006
"Love of Fact." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 5, 23 March 2006: 8,10. A review of the "Treasures from Olana: Lanscapes by Frederic Edwin Church" exhibit at the National Academy Museum in New York City February 9-April 30, 2006.
"Late Works: Writers Confronting the End." The New Yorker, 7 & 14 August 2006: 64-71. Emphasis on Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Melville, and James Joyce, but including others.
"The Artist as Prospector." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 10 August 2006: 34-35. A review of the "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscapte" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City May 19-October 22, 2006.
"Hugger-Mugger" The New Yorker, 18 September 2006: 86-88. Reviews le Carre's The Mission Song [Little, Brown; $26.99] and Ward Just's Forgetfulness [Houghton Mifflin; $25].
"The Artful Clarks." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 15, 5 October 2006: 9-11--the table of contents , by the way, incorrectly notes it starts on page 10. A review of "The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts,June 4–September 4, 2006; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 22–August 19, 2007.
"After Katrina." The New York Review of Books, 30 November 2006: 8, 10, 12. It is a review of New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 19-December 10, 2006.
2007
"What's Ahead for Tiger?" Links Magazine, April 2007: 86-88, 90. Comments as the 2007 Masters Tournament opens in August, GA.
"Serra's Triumph." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIV, Num. 12, 19 July 2007: 17-18. A review of Richard Serra: Sculpture: Forty Years, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 3-September 10, 2007. Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, Museum of Modern Art, 419 pp., $75.00.
"The Individual." The Atlantic Magazine, November 2007 (Volume 300, Number 4,): 14.
"The Purest of Styles." The New York Review of Books, 22 November 2007 [Volume 54, Number 18]: 16, 18]. He reviews the exhibit "Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard," together with the Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker, based on an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, September 28, 2007– January 6, 2008 (published by Rizzoli/Morgan Library and Museum/Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2007; 383 pp., $50.00).
"Extreme Dinosaurs." National Geographic Magazine, December 2007: 38-41. An essay introducing the issue's major story by the same title, "Extreme Dinosaurs."
"Gold and Geld." The New York Review of Books, 20 December 2007: 26, 28. A review of Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, based on a exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, from Octaober 18, 2007-June 30, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renee Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others. Neue Galerie/Prestel, 480 pp., $65.00.
2008
"Nocturnes," The New York Review of Books, 7 January 2008, Vol. 55, No. 1: 14, 16. Updike reviews the exhibition, George Seurat: The Drawings, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 28, 2007-January 7, 2008.
Articles By Title
"After Katrina." The New York Review of Books, 30 November 2006: 8, 10, 12. It is a review of New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 19-December 10, 2006.
"An Appetite for Truth: On Melville's Shorter Fiction." The Yale Review 85: No. 4 (October 1997): 25-47.
"Andy Warhol." Rolling Stone Magazine, 15 May 2003: 112.
"The Artful Clarks." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 15, 5 October 2006: 9-11--the table of contents , by the way, incorrectly notes it starts on page 10. A review of "The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts,June 4–September 4, 2006; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 22–August 19, 2007.
"Arthur Dove: A Retrospective." The New York Review of Books, 5 March 1998: 14-16. The Whitney Museum Exhibit. Essay review on the exhibit, "Pioneer," or as the front page says, "The Pioneer of Abstractionism."
"The Artist as Prospector." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 10 August 2006: 34-35. A review of the "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscapte" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City May 19-October 22, 2006.
"The Batter Who Mattered." The New York Times Magazine, Section Four, 29 December 2002:30-31.
"Beyond Real." The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2005: 4, 6-7. A review of the Max Ernst exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA ) held April 7 to July 10, 2005.
"Books Unbound, Life Unraveled." The New York Times, Op-Ed Week in Review Section, 18 June 2000: 15.
"Can Genitals Be Beautiful?" The New York Review of Books, 4 December 1997: 10,12. Essay review of Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna (The New York Museum of Modern Art, 12 October 1997 to 4 January 1998).
"Car Talk." The New Yorker, 31 March 1997: 108.
"Chasing After Providence." The New York Review of Books, 4 December 2003: 35-36. Commentary on Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day (1967).
"Christmas Cards." The New Yorker, 22-29 December 1997: 110-111.
"Citizen Gill." The New Yorker, 12 January 1998: 70. Subtitled, "Remembering the Quintessential New Yorker." One of a series of contributions remembering Brendan Gill.
"Comment." (re John F. Kennedy, Jr.) The New Yorker, 2 August 1999:23-24. "The Talk of the Town" comment regarding John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s life and death.
"Comment." (re World Trade Center terrorist attack). The New Yorker, 24 September 2001: 28-29. "The Talk of the Town" comment in the aftermath of the NYC attack.
"Dancing To His Own Tune." New York Review of Books, 19 October 2000. This essay will appear as the introduction to a new edition of Max Beerbohm's book, Seven Men, which was originally published in 1919. This new edition is published by The New York Review Books. Introduction by John Updike. New York: New York Review Books, 2000 xiii, 208 p. ISBN 0-940322-54-4
"Determined Spirit." The New York Review of Books, Vol. 52, No. 19, 1 December 2005: 13-14. A review of the Vincent Van Gogh drawings and paintings at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing October 18 to December 31, 2005.
"Dürer and Christ." The New York Review of Books, 2 November 2000: 17-18. Essay review of the Dürer's Passions exhibit at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge September 3-December 9, 2000.
"Early Inklings." The New Yorker, 23-30 April 2001: 173. One of five short essays by writers about their "First Jobs."
"Evangel of the Lens." The New York Review of Books, 12 August 1999: 19-21. Essay review of photographer Alfred Stieglitz in a second edition of Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, edited by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, with an introduction by Sara Greenough (National Gallery of Art/Bulfinch Press/Little Brown) and Stieglitz, O'Keefe & American Modernism, by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Amy Ellis, with Maura Lyons, catalog of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, April 16-July 11,1999 (Wadsworth Atheneum).
"Extreme Dinosaurs." National Geographic Magazine, December 2007: 38-41. An essay introducing the issue's major story by the same title, "Extreme Dinosaurs."
"Eye on Celebrity." The New York Review of Books, 25 June 1998: 4-5, 8. Essay review of an exhibit at The National Portrait Gallery with the theme is Celebrity Caricature in America.
"(Fear of) Swimming." Outside Magazine, September 2002, Vol. 27, Issue 9: 76-78.
"The Future of Faith." The New Yorker, 29 November 1999: 84-91.
"Gold and Geld." The New York Review of Books, 20 December 2007: 26, 28. A review of Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, based on a exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York, from Octaober 18, 2007-June 30, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renee Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others. Neue Galerie/Prestel, 480 pp., $65.00.
"Hawthorne Down on the Farm," The New York Review of Books, 8 August 2001: 48-49. Text of Updike's "Introduction" for the new Modern Library Classics paperback edition of Hawthorne's novel, The Blithedale Romance, published 14 August 2001.
"Hugger-Mugger" The New Yorker, 18 September 2006: 86-88. Reviews le Carre's The Mission Song [Little, Brown; $26.99] and Ward Just's Forgetfulness [Houghton Mifflin; $25].
"Hyman Bloom." Havard Review, Spring 2002, No. 2: 65. Comment on his Harvard art teacher in connection with a retrospective of Bloom's work opening 2 October 2002 at the National Academy of Design in New York.
"The Imaginary Builder." The New York Review of Books, 21 June 2001: 24, 26. A review of the "Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy" exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, showing from April 7 to September 9, 2001.
"Immortal Isaac." The New Yorker, 30 March 1998: 114-122. Subtitled, "What Newton's mind teaches about the pace of science."
"The Individual." The Atlantic Magazine, November 2007 (Volume 300, Number 4,): 14.
"Invisible Cathedral." The New Yorker, (15 November 2004: 106-110). A walking tour through the new Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
"Late Works: Writers Confronting the End." The New Yorker, 7 & 14 August 2006: 64-71. Writing as Critica-At-Large with emphasis on Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Melville, and James Joyce, but including others.
"Libido Lite." The New York Review of Books, Volume 51, Number 18, 18 November 2004: 30-31. Commentary on James Thurber's and E. B. White's 1929 book, "Is Sex Necessary?"
"'Island Cities': Commentary by the Author." The Literary Review, Fall 2000: 185-191.
"A Layman's Scope." Natural History, February 2000: 102.
"Lear, Far and Near." The New York Review of Books, 11 January 2001: 6, 8-9. An essay review of the "Edward Lear and the Art of Travel" exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 20 September 2000-14 January 2001.
"Logic Is Beautiful." The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2003: 16, 18. A review of the exhibition and the catalog of the Elie Nadelman sculptures presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York April 3-July 20, 2003.
"'A Lone Left Thing'." The New York Review of Books, 27 February 2003: 4, 6-7. A review of the Marsden Hartley Exhibit at the Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CN, January 17-April 23, 2003.
"Looking Back to Now." The New York Times, 12 December 1999: 5. "Week in Review" Section, Op-Ed Page.
"Lost Art." The New Yorker, 15 December 1997: 75-80. Subtitled, "What the author wanted to be before he decided to become a writer."
"Love of Fact." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII, No. 5, 23 March 2006: 8,10. A review of the "Treasures from Olana: Lanscapes by Frederic Edwin Church" exhibit at the National Academy Museum in New York City February 9-April 30, 2006.
"Making Faces." The New York Review of Books, Number 19, 2 December 2004: 4, 6. A review article of the Gilbert Stuart Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 21, 2004–January 16, 2005, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 27–July 31, 2005.
"Magnum Opus." The New Yorker 12 July 1999: 74-78. Subtitled, "At E. B. White's centennial, Charlotte spins on." Under A Critic at Large.
"Malgudi's Master." The New Yorker, 23 &30 June 1997: 134. Comments on Indian writer R. K. Narayan.
"Manhatten Transfer." The New Yorker, 20 January 1997: 43. In Talk of the Town.
"Maxwell's Touch." The New Yorker, 14 August 2000:29 (The Talk of the Town)
"Me and My Books: How Did They Assume a Life of Their Own?" The New Yorker, 3 February 1997: 38-39.
"Medieval Superheroes." The New York Times Book Review, 28 January 2001: 27. Adaptation of the Preface to a new edition of The Mabinogion, translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones and a Preface by John Updike. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, xliii, 259 p Everyman’s Library, ISBN 168 0-375-41175-5.
"More Light on Delft." The New York Review of Books, 18 February 1999: 11-12. Essay review of the Pieter de Hooch painting exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CN.
"My Life in Cars," Architectural Digest Motoring (Supplement to Architectural Digest) October 1999: 28, 30, 32.
"'Nature Itself'." The New York Review of Books, 10 August 2000: 8-10. An essay review of the Jean-Simeon Chardin exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 27-September 23, 2000.
"Never to sleep, always to dream." Golf Digest, March 2001: 124-126.
"New Kind on the Block." The New York Review of Books, 14 February 2002: 25-28.
"Nocturnes," The New York Review of Books, 7 January 2008, Vol. 55, No. 1: 14, 16. Updike reviews the exhibition, George Seurat: The Drawings, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 28, 2007-January 7, 2008.
"The Nude Marilyn." Playboy, 9 January 1997: 68, 70, 79, 81-83.
"An Ode to Golf." The New Yorker, 31 July 2000: 25.
"O Beautiful for Spacious Skies." The New York Review of Books, 15 August 2002: 26-28. This review focuses on the catalog of the exhibition by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer (Princeton University Press, 284 pp., $49.95 ), an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 17–August 25, 2002.
"Oil on Canvas."The American Scholar, Autumn 2004, Vol. 73, Issue 4: 40-43. The article contains a reproduction of the Alice W. Davis painting by that title. The article is taken, the title page footnote observes, from the Introduction to a new book of art reviews titled Still Looking which Knopf will publish sometime in 2005.
"On Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)." The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1999:12-13.
"On 'The Portrait of a Lady'." The New York Review of Books, 2 December 1999: 20, 22.
"On 'The Seducer's Diary' in Kierkegaard's Either/Or (1843)," The New York Review of Books, 29 May 1997: 27-28.
"One Cheer for Literary Biography." The New York Review of Books, 4 February 1999: 3-5.
"Personal History." The New Yorker, 7-14 December 1998: 82-99. Report on a trip to China.
"Poker: A Love Story." Life Magazine, 5 November 2004: 14-15. The subtitle is "Why is poker so popular? A man who has played for half a century explains the secret pleaures of the game."
"The Prodigal Sun," Allure Magazine, October 1997: ____.
"The Purest of Styles." The New York Review of Books, 22 November 2007 [Volume 54, Number 18]: 16, 18]. He reviews the exhibit "Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard," together with the Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker, based on an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, September 28, 2007– January 6, 2008 (published by Rizzoli/Morgan Library and Museum/Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2007; 383 pp., $50.00)
"A Sense of Change." The New Yorker, April 26 & May 3, 1999: 83-87.
"Serra's Triumph." The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIV, Num. 12, 19 July 2007: 17-18. A review of Richard Serra: Sculpture: Forty Years, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 3-September 10, 2007. Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, Museum of Modern Art, 419 pp., $75.00.
"Singular in Everything." The New York Review of Books, 6 November 2003 and 40th Anniversary Edition: 14, 18. A review of the El Greco exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 7 October 2003 to 11 January 2004.
"Street Arab." The New York Review of Books, Volume 51, Number 12, 15 July 2004: 10, 12. A review of "Childe Hassam, American Impressionist," an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10-September 12, 2004.
"Summer lovin'," LIFE, 1 July 2005: 14. A short commentary on the joys of summer.
"'Therefore I Print'." The New York Review of Books, 17 May 2001: 9-10, 12. A review of the William Blake exhibit at the Metroplotian Museum of Art, March 29-June 24.
"The Thing Itself," The New York Review of Books, 29 November 2001:10, 12. Updike's review of the Pieter Bruegel drawings and prints exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 25-December 2, 2001.
"The thing poet: on the life and rime of Karl Shapiro."Harper's Magazine, March 2003 (Vol. 306, No. 1834): 77-81.
"The Tried and Tréowe." Forbes ASAP Magazine, 2 October 2000: 201, 215.
"War on West 155th Street." The London Times Literary Supplement Commentary Section, 27 February 1998: 13-15. An article with the subtitle, "The Great Row inside the American Academy and the resignation of Ezra Pound".
"What's Ahead for Tiger?" Links Magazine, April 2007: 86-88, 90. Comments as the 2007 Masters Tournament opens in August, GA.
"A Wistful Master." The New York Review of Books, 13 April 2000: 18-20. A review of the Tilman Riemenschneider sculptures, on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York February 10-May 14, 2000.
"A Writer at Large." The New Yorker, 29 September 1997: 31-32. Subtitled, "Naked came the stranger to a mystery plot in cyberspace." In The Talk of the Town.
Updike Reviews
Reviews By Date
1997
"Monparnasse in Martinique." The New Yorker, 24 March 1997: 82-83. Review of Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau (Pantheon Press). Subtitled "A French Creole novel makes its English debut."
"Smiling Bob." The New Yorker, 7 April 1997: 88-94. Review of Billy Altman's Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley (Norton). Subtitled "Robert Benchley's highest hopes."
"Stones into Bread." The New Yorker, 12 May 1997: 92, 94, 96-97. Review of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son (Random House). Subtitled "Norman Mailer and the temptations of Christ."
"Muriel Goes to the Movies." The New Yorker, 26 May 1997: 76-78. Review of Muriel Sparks' Reality and Dreams (Houghton-Mifflin). Subtitled "A novel well suited to its subjects."
"Proust Died for You." The New Yorker, 2 June 1997: 88-89. Review of Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life (Pantheon). Subtitled "The long road to a novel."
"Mother Tongues." The New Yorker, 23 & 30 June 1997: 156-161. Reviews of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Random House) and Ardashir Vakil's Beach Boy (Hamish Hamilton). Subtitled "Subduing the language of the colonizer."
"Happiness, How Sad." The New Yorker, 4 August 1997: 72-76. Review of The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman (Dalkey Archive Press), edited by Steven Moore. Subtitled "The novelist who sought decorum in decadence."
"It's a Fair Cop." The London Sunday Times, 21 September 1997. Book Review Section. Review of Martin Amis' Night Train.
"Millennium Fever." The New Yorker 20-27 October 1997: 260-266. Review of Steven Jay Gould's Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Harmony-Crown). Subtitled "The scariness of too many zeros."
1998
"Barney Looks Back." The New Yorker, 19 January 1998: 81-82. Review of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version (Knopf). Subtitled "A humorous novel about growing old."
"Gender Benders." The New Yorker, 25 May 1998:120-121. Review of Peter Esterhazy's She Love Me (translated by Judith Sollosy (Northwestern). Subtitled "Naughtiness in the post-Communist World."
"Soap and Death in America." The New Yorker, 27 July 1998: 76-77. Review of Richard Powers' novel Gain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Subtitled "A novel about the dirty business of keeping America clean."
"Large for Her Years." The New Yorker, 10 August 1998: 73-76. Review of Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann (Knopf). Subtitled "Beyond the silence and the darkness lay the sexuality of Helen Keller."
"Man of Property." The London Sunday Times, 30 August 1998: 4. Review of William Trevor's Death in Summer (Viking Press)..
"Feminist Scholars Take on the Good Book." The New Yorker 14 September 1998: 93-97. Review of Cullen Murphy's The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (Houghton Mifflin). Subtitled, "Can Eve Be Reprieved?"
"Qui Qu'a Vu Coco?" The New Yorker, 21 September 1998:132-136. Review of Janet Wallach's Chanel: Her Style and Her Life (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). Sub- titled "Coco Chanel was known not just for her collections of clothes but for her collection of men."
"AWRIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHT!" The New Yorker, 9 November 1998: 99-102. Updike's review of Tom Wolfe's new 742 page novel, A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Subtitled "Tom Wolfe looks hard at America."
1999
"Poet on the Fault Line." The New Yorker, 15 March 1999: 84-91. Review of Jay Parini's Robert Frost: A Life (Henry Holt). Subtitled "A new biography looks at Robert Frost through his poems."
"A Same Sex Idyll." The New Yorker, 31 May 1999:113-114. A review of Alan Hollinghurst's third and new novel The Spell (Viking). Subtitled "Under 'The Spell'."
"Mud and Flames." The New Yorker, 2 August 1999:82-87. A review of Benita Eisler's biography, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame (Knopf). Subtitled "A new biography of Byron leaves us little to like except the poetry."
"Groaning Shelves." The New Yorker, 4 October 1999: 106-108, 110. Review of Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf (Knopf). Subtitled "The Evolution of Books and Their Housing."
"The Trashy Years." The New Yorker, 15 November 1999: 106-110. A review of The Higher Jazz by Edmund Wilson (Ed. Neale Reinitz, University of Iowa Press). Subtitled "An unfinished novel by the century's most formidable critic."
"On 'The Portrait of a Lady'." The New York Review of Books, 2 December 1999: 20, 22.
2000
"Is Sex Necessary?" The New Yorker, 21 & 28 February 2000: 280-282, 285-286, 289-290. A review of David Allyn's Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History (Little, Brown). Subtitled "A history of the revolution."
"The Man in Bed." The New Yorker, 3 April 2000: 89-92. A review of William C. Carter's Marcel Proust: A Life (Yale) Subtitled, "A new biography of marvellous, semi-moribund Marcel."
"Dangerous into Beautiful." The New Yorker, 15May 2000: 91-92. Review of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (Knopf) . Subtitled "An expatriate novelist returns home."
"Coming Home." The New Yorker, 22 May 2000: 92-94. Review of Stanley Crouch's Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing (Pantheon). Subtitled "A new novel about black and white in America."
"Dog's Tears." The New Yorker, 24 July 2000: 76-78. Review of Denis Johnson's The Name of the World (HarperCollins). Subtitled "Denis Johnson moves to academe."
"Love and Loss on Zycron." The New Yorker, 18 September 2000: 142-145. Review of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assasin (Doubleday). Subtitled "A science-fiction tale within a love story within a family saga."
"Oz Is Us." The New Yorker, 25 September 2000: 84-88. Review of The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Norton), edited and annotated by Michael Patrick Hearn. Subtitled "Celebrating the Wizard's centennial."
2001
"Both Rough and Tender." The New Yorker, 22 January 2001: 80-82. Review of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; $25) Subtitled, "The autobiography of an Australian folk hero."
"Stonewalling Toffs." The New Yorker, 12 February 2001: 98-99. Review of Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting (Doubleday; $21). Subtitled, "In a new novel, Muriel Spoark examines an old scandal." A "toff" is British lingo for "a Dandy."
"Fairy Tales and Paradigms." The New Yorker, 19 & 26 February 2001: 216-222. Review of A. S. Byatt's two books, On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (Harvard; $22.95) and The Biographer's Tale (Knopf; $24)--including comment on her 1992 "delicious novellas," The Conjugial Angel and Morpho Eugenia, published together in 1992 as Angels and Insects. Subtitled, "In essays and a novel, A. S. Byatt explores the pleasures of historical fiction."
"Tote That Ephemera." The New Yorker, 7 May 2001: 87-89. A review of Colson Whitehead's novel John Henry Days (Doubleday: $24.95). Subtitled, "An ambitious new novel from a grifted writer."
"Murder in Miniature." The New Yorker, 3 September 2001:92-95. Updike reviews Orhan Pamuk's book My Name Is Red (trans. Erdag Goknar; Knopf; $25.95) under the title,"Murder in Miniature," with the subtitle, "A sixteenth-century detective story explores the soul of Turkey."
"Young Iris," The New Yorker, 1 October 2001 issue, pp. 106-110. Subtitled, "A new biography focusses on the novelist's early questings," Updike provides an extended review of Peter J. Conradi's biography, Iris Murdoch: A Life (Norton, $35).
"Hide-and-Seek," The New Yorker, 26 October 2001: 90-93, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel (Norton). Subtitled, "The Complete Isaac Babel."
"Survivor/Believer." The New Yorker, 24-31 December 2001: 118-122. Essay review of Cezslaw Milosz's work, focusing on "To Begin Where I Am," edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30) , "Milosz's ABC's"; and also "A Treatise on Poetry," translated by Milosz and Robert Hass. A full page portrait of Milosz is provided on page 119.
2002
"No Brakes." The New Yorker, 4 February 2002: 77-80. Subtitled, "A new biography of Sinclair Lewis." Review of Richard Lingeman's Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street (Random House; $35)."
"Flesh on Flesh." The New Yorker, 4 March 2002: 80-82. Subtitled, "A semi-Austenesque novel from Ian McEwan." Review of Ian McEwan's Atonement (Doubleday; $26).
"Present Absences." The New Yorker, 1 April 2002: 94-95. Review of Michael Frayn's Spies (Holt; $23), with the byline subtitle, "In a new novel, an Englishman returns to a childhood summer."
"Remember the Lusitania." The New Yorker, 1 July 2002: 88-91. Review of David Ramsay, Lusitania: Saga and Myth (Norton; $29.95) and Diana Preston, Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy (Walker; $28). Subtitled, "Two new books reexamine the disaster."
"Home Care." The New Yorker, 30 September 2002: 140-142. Review of Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters (Knopf; $26) . Subtitled, "A family novel from Bombay.
"Red Loves Rex, Alas." The New Yorker, 11 November 2002: 190-192. Updike here reviews the new novel by Frederic Tuten, The Green Hour (Norton; $24.95).
2003
"The Lone Sailor." The New Yorker, 13 January 2003: 81-84. It carries the subtitle, "Tales of a colorful voyage to nowhere." A review of ÁlvaroMutis' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, translated by Edith Grossman (New York Review Books; $16.95).
"One-Way Street." The New Yorker, 31 March 2003:102-103. A review of Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel Cosmopolis (Scribner's; $25).
"Suppressed Atrocities." The New Yorker, 21-28 April 2003: 186-188. A review of Günter Grass' Crabwalk (translated from the German by Krishna Winston; Harcourt; $25).
"Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa." The New Yorker, 2 June 2003: 97-98. A review of the Norman Rush novel Mortals (Knopf; $26.95)
"Big Dead White Male." The New Yorker, 4 August 2003: 77-81. The essay-review is subtitled, "Ralph Waldo Emerson turns 200." A review of A Year with Emerson, edited by Richard Grossman and with engravings by Barry Moser (Boston: David R. Godine, 2003, $26.95); Understanding Emerson: 'The American Scholar' and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, by Kenneth S. Sacks (New York: Princeton University Press, 2003, $29.95); and Emerson, by Lawrence Buell (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2003; $29.95).
"A Natural Writer." The New Yorker, 22 September 2003: 184-186, 188-190, 195. Subtitled "A new biography of John O'Hara." A review of Geoffrey Wolff, The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara (Knopf; $30).
"An Obstinate Survivor." The New Yorker, 3 November 2003: 88-91. Subtitled, "Robert Hughes takes on the life of Goya." A review of Goya (Knopf; $40).
"Papery Passions." The New Yorker (24 November 2003: 100, 102-03). Subtitled, "A new novel by Peter Carey." A review of Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake (Knopf; $24).
2004
"Mind/Body Problems." The New Yorker, 26 January 2004: 90-92; 94-95. A review of Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23) and Hanif Kureishi's The Body (Schuster; $18).
"All About Abish." The New Yorker, 16 &23 February 2004: 188-194. The review is subtitled, "The cerebral experimentalist gets personal." The book by Walter Abish is Double Vision: A Self-Portrait (Knopf; $24).
"Silent Master." The New Yorker, 28 June 2004: 98-101. A review of Colm Tóibín' Silent Master (Scribners; $25). Subtitled, "Henry James becomes the hero of a historical novel."
"Twice Collected." The New Yorker, 26 July 2004: 84-88. A review of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux ;paper; $14). The subtitle is "The well-cared-for poems of Philip Larkin." There is a beautiful full-color abstract caricature of Larkin on page 85 done by Ralph Steadman.
"Anatolian Arabesques."The New Yorker, 30 August 2004: 98-99. Updike's review of Pamuk's novel Snow (trans. Maureen Freely; Knopf; $26), subtitled, "A modernist novel of contemporary Turkey."
"The Double," The New Yorker, 27 September 2004: 150, 152-153. A review of Jose Samamago's The Double (published in Portuguese in 2002; translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Harcourt; $25).
"The Great I Am." The New Yorker, 1 November 2004: 100-104. A review of The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter (Norton; $38.95), subtitled "Robert Alter's new translation of the Pentateuch."
2005
"Subconscious Tunnels." The New Yorker, 25 & 31 January 2005: 91-93. A review of Haruki Marakami's Kafka on the Shore (trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel; Knopf, $25.95), subtitled "Haruki Marakami's dreamlike new novel."
"Mixed Messages." The New Yorker, 3-14-2005: 138-140. Review of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95).
"Incommensurability." The New Yorker, 28 March 2005: 71-76. Subtitled, " A new biography of Kierkegaard." Joakim Garff's book, Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, is translated from the Danish by Kierkegaard scholar Bruce H. Kirmmse (Princeton; $35).
"Bitter Bamboo." The New Yorker, 9 May 2005: 84-87. Subtitled, "Two Novels from China." These are novels by mainland China authors: My Life as Emperor, by Su Tong (Hyperion East; $24.95), and Big Breasts & Wide Hips, by Mo Yan (Arcade; $27), translated by Howard Goldblatt.
"The Great Game Gone." The New Yorker, June 13 &20: 174-176. Subtitled "The post-Cold War spy novel." A review of Robert Littell's new novel, Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation (Overlook; $25.95).
"Paradises Lost." The New Yorker, 5 September 2005: 152; 154-155. A review of Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown (Random House; $25.95).
"A Cloud of Dust." The New Yorker, 12 September 2005: 98-100. A review of E. L. Doctorow's The March (Random House; $25.95).
"Metropolitan Art." The New York Times Book Review, 16 October 2005: 1; 10-12. Review of Jed Perl's New Art City (Alfred A. Knopf; $35). (Titled "'New Art City': Abstract Expressionism and Its Aftermath" for the online version at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16updike.html?8bu&emc=bu .
"Deceptively Conceptual." The New Yorker, 17 October 2005: 170-172. Review of By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design, by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger (Princeton Architectural Press; $29.95).
"Dying for Love." The New Yorker, 7 November 2005: 140-143. Review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores (trans by Edith Grossman; Knopf; $20).
"Flashy to the Rescue." The New Yorker, 21 November 2005: 94-96. Review of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman on the March (Knopf; $24).
2006
"Drawn to Gypsies." The New Yorker, 10 April 2006: 83-85. Review of Fernanda Eberstadt's non-fiction book, Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Knopf; $24.95).
"90% Hateful," The New Yorker, 22 May 2006: 76-80. A review of Michel Houellebecq's novel, The Possibility of an Island (Knopf; $24.95), translated from the French by Gavin Bowed. The review is accompanied by an excellent full-page Houellebecq personal caricature drawn by Ralph Steadman (p. 77).
"Blood and Paint," The New Yorker, 29 May 2006: 84-85. A review of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story [Knopf; $24].
"Extended Performance," The New Yorker, 31 July 2006:74-76, 78. A review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow (Pantheon; $30) and his other works.
"Hugger-Mugger," The New Yorker, 18 September 2006: 86-88. Reviews of John le Carre's The Mission Song [Little, Brown; $26.99] and Ward Just's Forgetfulness [Houghton Mifflin; $25].
"Down the River." The New Yorker , 6 November 2006: 116-119. A review of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Norton ($39.95), and edited by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr.and Hollis Robbins from Johns Hopkins University.
"America's Beloved." The Guardian, 18 November 2006. A review of The Letters of EB White: Revised Edition, published by HarperCollins; Revised edition (November 21, 2006).
2007
"Classics Galore." The New Yorker, 29 January 2007: 85-87. A review of Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf, $26) subtitled "Bocaccio in Hollywood."
"The Valiant Swabian." The New Yorker, 2 April 2007: 74-79. A review of Walter Isaacson's new biography, Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster; $32).
"The Changeling." The New Yorker, 16 April 2007: 154-157. A review of Hermione Lee's new biography Edith Wharton (Knopf; $35).
"Famous Aimee." The New Yorker , 30 April: 76-79. A review of Matthew Avery Sutton's Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard; $26.95).
"Laissez-Faire Is More," The New Yorker, 2 July 2007:76-79. A review of Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (HarperCollins, $26.50).
"A Boston Fable," The New Yorker, 1 October 2007: 98-100. A review of Ann Patchett's Run (HarperCollins; $25.95).
"Sparky from St. Paul," The New Yorker, 22 October 2007: 164-169. A review of David Michaelis' Schulz and Peanuts (HarperCollins; $34.95).
"Nan, American Man," The New Yorker, 3 December 2007:100-102. A review of Ha Jin's latest novel, A Free Life. It may currently be read online at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/notable-books-2007.html?_r=2&ref=books&oref=slogin&oref=slogin .
"Visual Trophies," The New Yorker, 24 December 2007: 144-148. A review of Robert Jackson's book, The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 (National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton; $55). The article is substitled "The Art of Snapshots."
"Back-chat, Funny Cracks," The New Yorker, 11 February 2008: 148-152. A review of Flann O'Brien's The Complete Novels in the Everyman's Library edition; $25.
2008
"Relative Strangers," The New Yorker, 6 May 2008:____. A review of Sean Greer’s new novel, The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22). The review is subtitled, "a novel about the shadows in a marriage."
Reviews By Title
"All About Abish." The New Yorker, 16 &23 February 2004: 188-194. The review is subtitled, "The cerebral experimentalist gets personal." The book by Walter Abish is Double Vision: A Self-Portrait (Knopf; $24).
"America's Beloved." The Guardian, 18 November 2006. A review of The Letters of EB White: Revised Edition, published by HarperCollins; Revised edition (November 21, 2006).
"Anatolian Arabesques."The New Yorker, 30 August 2004: 98-99. Updike's review of Pamuk's novel Snow (trans. Maureen Freely; Knopf; $26), subtitled, "A modernist novel of contemporary Turkey."
"An Obstinate Survivor." The New Yorker, 3 November 2003: 88-91. Subtitled, "Robert Hughes takes on the life of Goya." A review of Goya (Knopf; $40).
"AWRIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHT!" The New Yorker, 9 November 1998: 99-102. Updike's review of Tom Wolfe's new 742 page novel, A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Subtitled "Tom Wolfe looks hard at America."
"Back-chat, Funny Cracks," The New Yorker, 11 February 2008: 148-152. A review of Flann O'Brien's The Complete Novels in the Everyman's Library edition; $25.
"Barney Looks Back." The New Yorker, 19 January 1998: 81-82. Review of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version (Knopf). Subtitled "A humorous novel about growing old."
"Big Dead White Male." The New Yorker, 4 August 2003: 77-81. The essay-review is subtitled, "Ralph Waldo Emerson turns 200." A review of A Year with Emerson, edited by Richard Grossman and with engravings by Barry Moser (Boston: David R. Godine, 2003, $26.95); Understanding Emerson: 'The American Scholar' and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, by Kenneth S. Sacks (New York: Princeton University Press, 2003, $29.95); and Emerson, by Lawrence Buell (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2003; $29.95).
"Bitter Bamboo." The New Yorker, 9 May 2005: 84-87. Subtitled, "Two Novels from China." These are novels by mainland China authors: My Life as Emperor, by Su Tong (Hyperion East; $24.95), and Big Breasts & Wide Hips, by Mo Yan (Arcade; $27), translated by Howard Goldblatt.
"Blood and Paint," The New Yorker, 29 May 2006: 84-85. A review of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story [Knopf; $24].
"A Boston Fable," The New Yorker, 1 October 2007: 98-100. A review of Ann Patchett's Run (HarperCollins; $25.95).
"Both Rough and Tender." The New Yorker, 22 January 2001: 80-82. Review of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; $25) Subtitled, "The autobiography of an Australian folk hero."
"Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa." The New Yorker, 2 June 2003: 97-98. A review of the Norman Rush novel Mortals (Knopf; $26.95)
"The Changeling." The New Yorker, 16 April 2007: 154-157. A review of Hermione Lee's new biography Edith Wharton (Knopf; $35).
"Classics Galore." The New Yorker, 29 January 2007: 85-87. A review of Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf, $26) subtitled "Bocaccio in Hollywood."
"A Cloud of Dust." The New Yorker, 12 September 2005: 98-100. A review of E. L. Doctorow's The March (Random House; $25.95).
"Coming Home." The New Yorker, 22 May 2000: 92-94. Review of Stanley Crouch's Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing (Pantheon). Subtitled "A new novel about black and white in America."
"Dangerous into Beautiful." The New Yorker, 15May 2000: 91-92. Review of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (Knopf) . Subtitled "An expatriate novelist returns home."
"Deceptively Conceptual." The New Yorker, 17 October 2005: 170-172. Review of By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design, by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger (Princeton Architectural Press; $29.95).
"Dog's Tears." The New Yorker, 24 July 2000: 76-78. Review of Denis Johnson's The Name of the World (HarperCollins). Subtitled "Denis Johnson moves to academe."
"The Double," The New Yorker, 27 September 2004: 150, 152-153. A review of Jose Samamago's The Double (published in Portuguese in 2002; translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Harcourt; $25).
"Down the River." The New Yorker , 6 November 2006: 116-119. A review of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Norton ($39.95), and edited by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr.and Hollis Robbins from Johns Hopkins University.
"Drawn to Gypsies." The New Yorker, 10 April 2006: 83-85. Review of Fernanda Eberstadt's non-fiction book, Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Knopf; $24.95).
"Dying for Love," The New Yorker, 11 November 2005: 140-143. Review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores (trans by Edith Grossman; Knopf; $20).
"Extended Performance," The New Yorker, 31 July 2006: 74-76, 78. A review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow (Pantheon; $30) and his other works.
"Fairy Tales and Paradigms." The New Yorker, 19 & 26 February 2001: 216-222. Review of A. S. Byatt's two books, On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (Harvard; $22.95) and The Biographer's Tale (Knopf; $24)--including comment on her 1992 "delicious novellas," The Conjugial Angel and Morpho Eugenia, published together in 1992 as Angels and Insects. Subtitled, "In essays and a novel, A. S. Byatt explores the pleasures of historical fiction."
"Famous Aimee." The New Yorker , 30 April: 76-79. A review of Matthew Avery Sutton's Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard; $26.95).
"Feminist Scholars Take on the Good Book." The New Yorker 14 September 1998: 93-97. Review of Cullen Murphy's The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (Houghton Mifflin). Subtitled, "Can Eve Be Reprieved?"
"Flashy to the Rescue." The New Yorker, 21 November 2005: 94-96. Review of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman on the March (Knopf; $24).
"Flesh on Flesh." The New Yorker, 4 March 2002: 80-82. Subtitled, "A semi-Austenesque novel from Ian McEwan." Review of Ian McEwan's Atonement (Doubleday; $26).
"Gender Benders." The New Yorker, 25 May 1998:120-121. Review of Peter Esterhazy's She Love Me (translated by Judith Sollosy (Northwestern). Subtitled "Naughtiness in the post-Communist World."
"The Great Game Gone" The New Yorker, June 13 &20: 174-176. Subtitled "The post-Cold War spy novel." A review of Robert Littell's new novel, Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation (Overlook; $25.95).
"The Great I Am." The New Yorker, 1 November 2004: 100-104. A review of The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter (Norton; $38.95), subtitled "Robert Alter's new translation of the Pentateuch."
"Groaning Shelves." The New Yorker, 4 October 1999: 106-108, 110. Review of Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf (Knopf). Subtitled "The Evolution of Books and Their Housing."
"Happiness, How Sad." The New Yorker, 4 August 1997: 72-76. Review of The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman (Dalkey Archive Press), edited by Steven Moore. Subtitled "The novelist who sought decorum in decadence."
"Hide-and-Seek," The New Yorker, 26 October 2001: 90-93, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel (Norton). Subtitled, "The Complete Isaac Babel."
"Home Care," The New Yorker, 30 September 2002: 140-142. Review of Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters (Knopf; $26) . Subtitled, "A family novel from Bombay.
"Hugger-Mugger," The New Yorker, 18 September 2006: 86-88. Reviews of John le Carre's The Mission Song [Little, Brown; $26.99] and Ward Just's Forgetfulness [Houghton Mifflin; $25].
"Incommensurability." The New Yorker, 28 March 2005: 71-76. Subtitled, "A new biography of Kierkegaard." Joakim Garff's book is translated from the Danish by Kierkegaard scholar Bruce H. Kirmmse (Princeton; $35).
"Is Sex Necessary?" The New Yorker, 21 & 28 February 2000: 280-282, 285-286, 289-290. A review of David Allyn's Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History </