John Updike Criticism: Further Reading

Allen, Brooke, "Updike Redux," New Leader (1–15 December 1997): 13–14. (Positive review of Toward the End of Time)

Boswell, Marshall, "The Black Jesus: Racism and Redemption in John Updike's Rabbit Redux," Contemporary Literature XXXIX, No. 1 (Spring 1998): 99–132. (Examines Updike's complex presentation of racism, original sin, and white guilt in Rabbit Redux)

Bottum, J., "Social Gospel," Commentary 101, No. 4 (April 1996): 64–66. (Unfavorable review of In the Beauty of the Lilies)

Cooper, Rand Richards, "Bungle in the Jungle," Commonweal (8 April 1994): 18–20. (Unfavorable review of Brazil)

Corwin, Phillip, "Oh, What the Hex," Commonweal (1 June 1984): 340–341. (Tempered review of The Witches of Eastwick)

Danto, Arthur C., "What MOMA Done Tole Him," New York Times Book Review (15 October 1989): 12. (Review of Just Looking: Essays on Art)

Davis, Hope Hale, "Distaff Doormat," New Leader (18 April 1988): 20–21. (Unfavorable review of S.)

Denby, David, "A Life of Sundays," New Republic (22 May 1989): 29–33. (Provides an overview of Updike's work and tempered review of Self-Consciousness)

Dyer, Geoff, "No Problem," New Statesman & Society (17 January 1992): 45–46. (Tempered review of Odd Jobs)

Gray, Paul, "A Burden of Answered Prayers," Time (13 March 1989): 77. (Positive review of Self-Consciousness)

Gray, Paul, "Doglegs of Decrepitude," Time (14 November 1994): 98. (Favorable review of The Afterlife and Other Stories)

Gray, Paul, "Gerald Ford Redux," Time (9 November 1992): 80–81. (Tempered review of Memories of the Ford Administration)

Gray, Paul, "Karma in the Sunbelt," Time (29 February 1988): 98. (Positive review of S.)

Gray, Paul, "We Lost It at the Movies," Time (29 January 1996): 78. (Tempered review of In the Beauty of the Lilies)

Inglis, Fred, "On Being a Dud," Nation (10 July 1989): 59–61. (Negative review of Self-Consciousness)

Johnson, Charles, "The Virgin President," New York Times Book Review (1 November 1992): 11. (Review of Memories of the Ford Administration)

Keenan, John, "Rio Romance," New Statesman & Society (8 April 1994): 41. (Positive review of Brazil)

Pritchard, William, "In Clover," New Republic (30 September 1981): 30–32. (Tempered review of Rabbit is Rich)

Ra'ad, Basem L., "Updike's New Versions of Myth in America," Modern Fiction Studies 37, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 25–33. (Examines Updike's attitudes concerning myth, American culture, and the loss of connection with the past in his fiction)

Robinson, Sally, "‘Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack’: John Updike and the Construction of Middle American Masculinity," Modern Fiction Studies 44, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 331–363. (Examines the evolution of post-war American white, middle-class, masculine identity as portrayed in Updike's Rabbit novels)

Schiff, James A., "Updike Ignored: The Contemporary Independent Critic," American Literature 67, No. 3 (September 1995): 531–552. (Examines the significance and critical reception of Updike's critical writings, book reviews, and essays)

Sheppard, R. Z., "Punch Lines," Time (4 May 1987): 103. (Positive review of Trust Me)

Sheppard, R. Z., "Warning: The Rabbit Is Loose," Time (14 February 1994): 73. (Tempered review of Brazil)

Wills, Garry, "Long-Distance Runner," New York Review of Books (25 October 1990): 11–14. (Summary of Updike's Rabbit tetralogy and unfavorable assessment of Rabbit Is Rich)

Wood, James, "Under the Aspect of Serenity," New Republic (27 May 1996): 29–33. (Unfavorable review of In the Beauty of the Lilies)

Wright, Derek, "Mapless Motion: Form and Space in Updike's Rabbit, Run," Modern Fiction Studies 37, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 35–44. (Examines elements of entropy and Harry Angstrom's metaphorical flight into open space in Rabbit, Run)

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