Jenny Jackson’s ‘The Shampoo Effect’ may be the most Ipswich book ever

"Pineapple Street" author and longtime Knopf editor Jenny Jackson returned to the North Shore for her second novel, which ...

Separating Josh Hokit from Josh's nonsense is the game within the game

UFC's most polarizing heavyweight insists he has no regrets about the controversies that have fueled his rise. The problem is ...
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

The smiling, Bermuda-shorted figure on the jacket of John Updike’s new volume of essays and criticism looks engagingly pleased with the world and himself, and the first sentences of his Foreword tell ...
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Ophelia Field

For a twenty-first novel – and one that includes yet more variations on John Updike’s favourite themes – Villages is not a lazy book. If someone who had never read Updike were picking it up, one might ...