John Updike

Slake's New Issue: Read Any Good 'Dirt' Lately?

Joe Donnelly and Laurie Ochoa (above), editors of Slake: Los Angeles -- the beautiful quarterly slab of essays, poetry, photography, fiction and reportage -- were once, respectively, deputy editor and editor-in-chief of this very paper. Now they're celebrating Slake's fourth issue, "Dirt," at the L ... More >>

Read Any Good Dirt Lately?

Feed Your Head: Top 10 Food Books That Make Us Drool

Whether it's a chef's memoir or a novel set in the kitchen, books that center around food have conjured up cravings, inspired us at the stove and opened us up to new adventures in dining. This is a list of our favorites: some fiction, some exposé, some popular, some obscure, but all in celebration ... More >>

John Updike at the Movies

Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the first in Updike's tetralogy of novels about the disaffected former high-school basketball star Harry " ... More >>

John Updike at the Movies

Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the first in Updike's tetralogy of novels about the disaffected former high-school basketball star Harry " ... More >>

Married Life: Far From Heaven

Clearly inspired by Todd Haynes, Ira Sachs' film doesn't quite compare

The Listener

In his 11th film as director, Robert Benton keeps his ear to the ground of human emotions

International Man of Myths

From Mad Max to Happy Feet, George Miller tells one never-ending story

Milking It

9/11 thumb suckers

Weekly Literary Supplement

Summer reading

The Spider and the Wasp

John Updike and his Terrorist

London Falling, Hollywood Calling

Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

Agent Provocateur

Graham Greene’s centenary on the page and on the screen

The First Time

The First Time

Superspreaders

American Idols

Under the Goat

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead, media junkie

Interview With a . . . Novelist

Julian Barnes on Love, etc.

Dung Ho

New interest in a very old subject

Experiencing Martin Amis

At the Chateau Marmont, in Beverly Hills, on television and in his new memoir

100 Years of Weltschmerz

Gunter Grass’ century

Altered Chords

Artie Shaw on music, God, sex & fame

Child's Play

Nicholson Baker enters a kid's head