John Updike
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A sufferer writes about how the skin condition affected figures as diverse as Joseph Stalin, John Updike and Cyndi Lauper
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The campaign to cancel the author is typical of today’s all-or-nothing approach, where if you don’t like everything about a public figure, you can’t like anything
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The writer and comedian on admiring John Updike, crying over Station Eleven and laughing at Alan Partridge
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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As authors from Chaucer to Hollinghurst have shown, sex reveals our emotions, instincts and morals. The question is not why write about sex, claims author Garth Greenwell, it’s why write about anything else?
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From Celia Paul to Dora Maar to the abstract expressionists in postwar New York, Annalena McAfee on the female artists finding their way into the limelight
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From Graham Greene’s anguished transgressions to Milan Kundera’s happy-go-lucky erotic adventures, fiction has long adored illicit affairs
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The novelist on learning from John Updike, failing to read Anthony Trollope and the laugh-out-loud comedy of Nina Stibbe
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The three decades between The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood’s much anticipated follow-up makes the wait for George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter seem brief
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Novelist Deborah Moggach recommends writers who confront the passing of the years, from John Updike to Virginia Ironside
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In the second of a new series of reviews from the Observer archive, Martin Amis marvels at the third instalment of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit’ series
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From Dickens to Woolf and Updike, novelists have taken on a dark but compelling challenge: to imagine their characters’ final experience
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As Wimbledon 2018 starts, the novelist tips books on Agassi and Federer – with a volley from Roth and Updike
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TV writer tells Hay festival he aims to ‘wipe out’ idea Updike was a misogynist
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The supernatural, witchcraft or sex can be spellbinding, while others conjure gold from the everyday human struggle
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Doris Lessing left her marriage and children to write. Seventy-five years on, Lara Feigel examines the author’s maternal ambivalence and explores her own struggle to balance motherhood and freedom
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He doesn’t appear very often in fiction, but in these books – by authors ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to John Updike – his impact is almighty
From the Guardian archive John Updike’s Rabbit, Run reviewed – archive, 1961