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...In recent years, this has been more often than not about the threat that Donald Trump and today’s Republican party pose to US democracy....
...In his 2017 inaugural address, Donald Trump vowed to “unite the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth”....
...We’ve hardly allowed ourselves to imagine what happens if the most likely scenario occurs: Donald Trump loses the US election, whines for a while, then leaves office....
...In his diplomatic correspondence — that other literary genre — Kim Darroch does the same with Donald Trump....
...Of all the reasons John Updike gave for his move to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the most impressive was anthropological. “You’re exposed to people who aren’t in your game,” he said....
...‘Flexible friendships, ruthless pragmatism’ Donald Trump’s withdrawal from northern Syria (the Kurds “didn’t help us with Normandy”, he explained) is having severe ramifications....
...Am I not allowed to have treacle any more because of Donald Trump?...
...Are we to discard Updike because he got so much wrong? Should we take the pictures down? Burn the books? Turn off the music?...
...John Updike’s novel Rabbit is Rich , set during the second oil shock of the 1970s, is a portrait of America racked by anxiety over energy....
...He was lauded as uncannily prescient, identifying the threat of populism in The Plot Against America years before the election of Donald Trump....
...John Updike saw him as a cartoonist, whose books contained everything but realistic, middle-of-the-road people....
...Silvers had met everyone; Bellow, Updike, Mailer, Baldwin, and was lately a big fan of Zadie Smith, so approbation from him was high praise indeed....
...He loathed John Updike for writing bunged-up, navel-gazing books, and Picasso for passing off clunky abstraction as genius....
...As for the poetry of major novelists — John Updike, for example — it’s best not to comment. “But there can be beauty in failure,” Lerner reminds me diplomatically....
...For every critic in the Guardian, there was John Updike, who found de Botton dazzling. For every insurance manager from Florida, there is a Kathy from Salt Lake City....
...In U and I (1991), his self-regarding book about John Updike, Baker revealed further his comic acuity and his lack of fidelity to human beings (dressed though the book was as a homage to one)....
...Donald Morrison is author of ‘The Death of French Culture’ (Polity) The Map and the Territory, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd, William Heinemann, RRP£17.99, 304 pages...
...Donald Morrison is the author of ‘The Death of French Culture’ (Polity Press)...
...Good to be God explores the meaning of failure by courting failure itself, in the way that Donald Barthelme’s masterly short stories court nonsense....
...Kafka, Ibsen, Lawrence, Updike, Vonnegut – casts light both on aspects of their creativity and on the zeitgeist....
...In case your image of The Post dates back to Watergate, be aware that its op-ed page, in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, made Donald Rumsfeld look dovish....
...TERRORIST by John Updike Hamish Hamilton ₤17.99, 320 pages Updike may be more naturally attuned to the anxieties of his waspish, middle-class anti-hero Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom than to the worries of a...
...I am not Philip Roth or John Updike. They get to write a novel. I get paid to give people a reasoned answer that applies the law to the facts.” John Gapper is the FT’s chief business commentator....
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