The Library of America will offer a four-part zoom course on literary friends and rivals John Updike and Philip Roth, taught by Adam Gopnik, who delivered the opening keynote talk at the October 2025 joint Philip Roth and John Updike … Continue reading →

Already in Serbia there is excitement and anticipation of the upcoming Fifth Biennial (International?) John Updike Society Conference in Belgrade, scheduled for June 1-June 5, 2018 and hosted by the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade. Conference director Biljana Dojčinović … Continue reading →

A revised version of Adam Sexton’s presentation at the 3rd Biennial John Updike Society Conference was recently published in Issue #27 of Post Road Magazine: “The Centaur by John Updike” In it, he talks about teaching The Centaur to the painting, fashion, … Continue reading →

Judith Wynn, who reviewed several of Updike’s books for The Boston Herald, will teach a six-week course, “The Short Fiction of John Updike,” at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Harvard Square. The classes will run from 6-7:30 p.m. … Continue reading →

The syllabus for a third-year course (EH4016) on “State of the Union: American Literature since 1890” being taught at the University of Limmerick (Ireland) requires students to read five novels. One of them is John Updike’s Rabbit, Run. The others are … Continue reading →