John Updike
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker, where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism until his death in 2009. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His last books were the novel The Widows of Eastwick and Due Considerations, a collection of his essays and criticism.
From the Review
October 23, 2008: A Wee Irish Suite (poem)
August 14, 2008: Splendid Lies
J.M.W. Turner an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10–May 18, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24–September 21, 2008
June 26, 2008: 'The Clarity of Things'
January 17, 2008: Nocturnes
Georges Seurat: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, and Richard Thomson
December 20, 2007: Gold & Geld
Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.
November 22, 2007: The Purest of Styles
Vincent van Gogh—Painted with Words: The Letters to Émile Bernard Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker
July 19, 2007: Serra's Triumph
Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke
May 31, 2007: Frankie Laine (1913–2007) (poem)
November 30, 2006: After Katrina
New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori
After the Flood by Robert Polidori, with an introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim
October 5, 2006: The Artful Clarks
The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.
August 10, 2006: The Artist as Prospector
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by Gail S. Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates,Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, and Karal Ann Marling
May 25, 2006: Lucian Freud (poem)
March 23, 2006: Love of Fact
Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church Catalog of the exhibit by Kevin J. Avery, with anintroduction by John Wilmerding
December 1, 2005: Determined Spirit
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop
May 26, 2005: Beyond Real
Max Ernst: A Retrospective Catalog of the exhibition edited by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald
Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle by Robert McNab, with a preface by Werner Spies
Surrealism USA Catalog of the exhibitionedited by Isabelle Dervaux
May 12, 2005: The Blessings of the Sun
December 2, 2004: Making Faces
Gilbert Stuart Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles
November 18, 2004: Libido Lite
July 15, 2004: Street Arab
Childe Hassam, American Impressionist Catalog of the exhibition edited by H. Barbara Weinberg
December 4, 2003: Chasing After Providence
November 6, 2003: Singular in Everything
El Greco catalog of the exhibition edited by David Davies, with essays by Davies and John H. Elliott and contributions by Xavier Bray, Keith Christiansen, Gabriele Finaldi, Marcus Burke, and Lois Oliver
June 12, 2003: Logic Is Beautiful
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life Catalog of the exhibitionby Barbara Haskell
February 27, 2003: 'A Lone Left Thing'
Marsden Hartley Catalog of the exhibition edited byElizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912–1915 edited by James Timothy Voorhies
August 15, 2002: O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 Catalog of the exhibition by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer
February 14, 2002: New Kind on the Block
New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price
November 29, 2001: The Thing Itself
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints catalog of the exhibition edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, with additional contributions by Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, and Larry Silver
August 9, 2001: Hawthorne Down on the Farm
July 5, 2001: A Missing 'S' (letter)
June 21, 2001: The Imaginary Builder
Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy
May 17, 2001: 'Therefore I Print'
William Blake
William Blake Catalog of the exhibition by Robin Hamlyn and Michael Phillips, with introductory essays by Peter Ackroyd and Marilyn Butler
January 11, 2001: Lear, Far and Near
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel catalog of the exhibition by Scott Wilcox, with contributions by Eva Bowerman, Clay Dean, Morna O'Neill, Stephen Vella, and Emily Weeks.
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 20, 2000–January 14, 2001
November 2, 2000: Dürer and Christ
Dürer's Passions September 9-December 3, 2000 by an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts,, album of the exhibition, with a separately bound essay Jordan Kantor, foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
October 19, 2000: Dancing to His Own Tune
August 10, 2000: 'Nature Itself'
Chardin 27-September 3, 2000. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg, with essays by Rosenberg, Colin B. Bailey, René Démoris, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune and Antoine Schnap
Chardin: An Intimate Art by Hélène Prigent, by Pierre Rosenberg
April 13, 2000: A Wistful Master
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 10-May 14, 2000. Yale University Press) an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,, Catalog of the exhibition by Julien Chapuis
December 2, 1999: On 'The Portrait of a Lady'
August 12, 1999: Evangel of the Lens
Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings second edition, edited by Sarah Greenough, by Juan Hamilton, with an introduction by Sarah Greenough
Stieglitz, O'Keeffe & American Modernism Connecticut, April 16-July 11, 1999. by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, by Amy Ellis, with Maura Lyons. Catalog of an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
June 24, 1999: On Saul Steinberg (1914–1999)
March 4, 1999: Slight Revision (letter)
February 18, 1999: More Light on Delft
Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 1998-February 27, 1999. an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 17,, Catalog of the exhibition by Peter C. Sutton
February 4, 1999: One Cheer for Literary Biography
December 3, 1998: Jackson Whole
Jackson Pollock 1998-February 2, 1999; Tate Gallery, London, March 11-June 6, 1999. an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1,, Catalog of the exhibition by Kirk Varnedoe, with Pepe Karmel
June 25, 1998: Funny Faces
Celebrity Caricature in America April 10-August 23, 1998. by an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition by Wendy Wick Reaves
March 5, 1998: Pioneer
Arthur Dove: A Retrospective 1998-April 12, 1998. by an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 15, Catalog of the exhibition by Debra Bricker Balken, with William C. Agee, by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
December 4, 1997: Can Genitals Be Beautiful?
Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, October 12, 1997-January 4, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition by Magdalena Dabrowski, by Rudolf Leopold
September 25, 1997: Not a Seducer (letter)
May 29, 1997: On 'The Seducer's Diary'
November 28, 1996: Bridges to the Invisible
Max Beckmann in Exile 1997 Barbara Stehlé-Akhtar, Reinhard Spieler, Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann, and Eric Fischl. exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo October 9, 1996-January 5,. Catalog of the exhibition with contributions by Matthew Drutt,
Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950 by Max Beckmann, edited and translated by Barbara C. Buenger
August 8, 1996: The Ache in Eakins
Thomas Eakins:The Rowing Pictures 23-September 29, 1996; The Yale University Art Gallery, October 11, 1996-January 14, 1997; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 15-May 15, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, D. C., June, Catalog of the exhibition by Helen A. Cooper, with contributions by Martin A. Berger, by Christina Currie, by Amy B. Werbel
December 21, 1995: An Honest Eye
John Singleton Copley in America 26, 1995–January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September, Catalog of the exhibition by Carrie Rebora, by Paul Staiti, by Erica E. Hirshler, by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., by Carol Troyen, with contributions by Morrison H. Heckscher, by Aileen Ribeiro, by Marjorie Shelley
John Singleton Copley in England 1995–January 7, 1996. an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 11,, Catalog of the exhibition by Emily Ballew Neff, with an essay by William L. Pressly
November 30, 1995: Archer's Way
August 10, 1995: Hopper's Polluted Silence
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination 22–October 15 an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination catalog of the exhibition by Deborah Lyons, by Adam D. Weinberg. edited by Julie Grau, with contributions by fourteen others
Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin
Edward Hopper's New England by Carl Little
Hopper by Mark Strand
Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné edited by Gail Levin
May 25, 1995: Nadar's Swift Tact
Nadar 14-July 9, 1995 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April
Nadar catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Françoise Heilbrun, by Philippe Néagu, with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas, by André Jammes, by Ulrich Keller, by Sophie Rochard, by André Rouillé
January 12, 1995: Heade Storms
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 4, 1994–January 8, 1995
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Cash, technical notes by Claire M. Barry
June 23, 1994: Beyond the Picturesque
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915 10–July 24, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May
American Impressionism and Realism: Drawings, Prints, and Photographs 3–July 24, 1994 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915 catalog of the exhibition by H. Barbara Weinberg et al.
March 24, 1994: Degas Out of Doors
Degas Landscapes 21–April 3, 1994, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24–July 3, 1994 an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January
Degas Landscapes catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall
December 16, 1993: Big, Bright & Bendayed
Roy Lichtenstein 8, 1993–January 16, 1994 an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York October
Roy Lichtenstein catalog of the exhibition by Diane Waldman
May 13, 1993: The Lean and Optical Dane
Christen Koobke by Sanford Schwartz
December 3, 1992: Pilgrim's Progress
The Discovery of America by Saul Steinberg
March 7, 1991: Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR 23–March 31, 1991 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York January
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the USSR (paper, distributed by Abrams) catalog of the exhibition by Robert Rosenblum, by Boris I. Asvarishch, edited by Sabine Rewald
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner
November 8, 1990: Better Than Nature
The Art of Albert Pinkham Ryder 1991 an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum September 21, 1990–January 7,
Albert Pinkham Ryder catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Broun
Albert Pinkham Ryder by William Innes Homer, by Lloyd Goodrich
August 16, 1990: The Passion of Graham Greene
June 28, 1990: 'A Sort of Intimate Whirlwind'
The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum May 18 to July 30, 1990
The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Wynne Easton
March 29, 1990: 'Indian Summer' (letter)
February 1, 1990: Rereading 'Indian Summer'
August 18, 1988: 'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
June 16, 1988: The Writer Lectures
April 10, 1986: The Illustrative Itch
July 18, 1985: The Artist and His Audience
October 11, 1984: The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski (letter)
March 18, 1982: The Parajanov Case (letter)
August 13, 1981: Death in Iran (letter)
March 19, 1981: On Hawthorne's Mind
September 25, 1980: Professor Nabokov
May 18, 1978: Saint of the Mundane
February 9, 1978: Walt Whitman: Ego and Art
March 4, 1976: Detained in Ghana (letter)
June 27, 1974: Soviet Inhumanity (letter)
July 19, 1973: Committee in Defense of Andrei Amalrik (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | We Always Treat Women Too Well We Always Treat Women Too Well, a hilarious send-up of pulp fiction, tells how a lascivious young lady overcomes rebellion in Ireland. |
 | Seven Men In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. |
Books by John Updike
Seek My Face (2002)
Buchanan Dying: A Play (2000)
Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel (2000)
A Child's Calendar (1999)
On Literary Biography (1999)
More Matter: Essays and Criticism (1999)
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel (1998)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf (1996)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995)
The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994)
Brazil (1994)
Conversations with John Updike (1994)
Love Factories: Three Stories, with a Foreword (1993)
Collected Poems, 1953-1993 (1993)
Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel (1992)
Ma Jen (1991)
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism (1991)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Just Looking: Essays on Art (1989)
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (1989)
Going Abroad (1988)
The Afterlife (1987)
Trust Me: Short Stories (1987)
Roger's Version (1986)
Facing Nature: Poems (1985)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (1983)
Bech Is Back (1982)
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1982)
Rabbit Is Rich: A Novel (1981)
Problems and Other Stories (1979)
Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories (1979)
The Coup (1978)
The Poorhouse Fair (1977)
Tossing and Turning: Poems (1977)
Couples: A Short Story (1976)
Marry Me: A Romance (1976)
A Month of Sundays (1975)
Picked-Up Pieces (1975)
Buchanan Dying; A Play (1974)
Museums and Women, and Other Stories (1972)
Seventy Poems (1972)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Rabbit, Run (1970)
Of the Farm (1968)