John Updike: The Final Ornament

By Michael Antman

Ever the completist, John Updike had managed to finish his life-long project of drawing and connecting the things of his world. A kind of psychic recycler, he never let anything go to waste. [22 July 2009]

Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike

By Frank Fitzpatrick

The last words of John Updike, poet, gazing back at his readers one final time. [17 June 2009]

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

By Christopher Guerin

The novel has enormous vitality and the main characters are memorable, but the moral ambiguity, really moral obliviousness, is disappointing. [9 December 2008]

Americana and Other Poems by John Updike

By John Kenyon

Updike's writing and vocabulary place him in rarified air with few peers. In verse, that talent and intellect are featured in what is perhaps their best arena, a place where his razor sharp wit, keen observational eye, and precise writing shine the brightest. [1 January 1995]

Writing too enjoyable an endeavor for John Updike to consider retirement [7 January 2009]