Christopher Carduff

Beattie, whose latest novel is “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” will give a reading Oct. 17 and two subsequent lectures as part of the Kapnick residency.

A review of My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search for Home, by Michael Brendan Dougherty.

The case for Biden has little to do with his policies, whatever they might be.

Younger voters present an opportunity for the Right.

Angela Bourke, author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, and Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne discuss and read from her work

2015 brought a number of great additions to the literary world, and as the year winds down we wanted to share some of our favorites with you.

One writer buttoned up, another untucked, John Updike and Jim Harrison couldn’t be more different. But poetry strips away external identities to reveal the similarities within.

John Wieners and John Updike used poetry to evoke the eccentricity of their shared city.

Rabbit Angstrom, The Wiches of Eastwick, and more.

Biographer Adam Begley explores the life of the American writing legend in ‘Updike,’ while the Library of America has released a collection of 186 Updike short stories in the boxed set ‘John Updike: The Collected Stories.’

The best art critics write for a general audience, not the art audience, and they have a capacious sensibility that balances knowledge of history and theory with a fresh, organic appraisal of the work at hand. So it is with John Updike, whose posthumous volume of art criticism, “Always Looking: Essa…

The essays in “Always Looking” display the qualifications of a novelist that John Updike brought to his moonlighting as an art critic.

A posthumous collection of essays and criticism reminds the reader of how skilled a literary decathlete John Updike was.

The Library of America celebrates the novelist’s centennial.

The Library of America has just published the first of a two-volume collection of the novels and stories of the late writer William Maxwell, whose writing voice John Updike once described as “one of the wisest and kindest in American fiction.”