There haven’t been many adaptations of John Updike’s fiction over the years. “The Witches of Eastwick” was brought to TV and the movies, and “Rabbit, Run” was turned into a movie in 1970. It’s ...

It should come as no surprise that the new decade finds Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom once again keeping time with death. It has always been one of his more familiar companions; it’s part of what gives him ...

Donald Trump. Oprah Winfrey. Bill Cosby. Sexual misconduct. Substance abuse. Junk food. Those individual and subjects, and hundreds more cultural markers, are name-checked or delved into in John ...

John Updike, let us hope, died more peacefully than his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Rabbit died about 19 years ago, when Rabbit at Rest was published. It has disturbed me ever since, quite ...

Rabbit novels is one of the five most important achievements in fiction in the past quarter century. Here, in the second of a two-part conversation, Updike agrees that the books represent the peak of ...