Literature: Superstars

Updike's Farewell to Rabbit.

During the 1990s several writers who came of age at midcentury published new and often provocative works. Rabbit at Rest (1996), John Updike's fourth and final installment in the saga of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom—which began with Rabbit Run (1961) and continued with Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit is Rich (1981)—completes the story of the former high-school basketball star who has enjoyed the benefits and endured the emptiness of the middle-class American Dream.

The Wolfe Controversy.

Updike was also involved in literary controversy with his criticism of A Man in Full (1998), a novel by Tom Wolfe, who became well-known in the 1960s for journalistic nonfiction such as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). His second novel, A Man in Fully continued the satire of...

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