You can read the first part of Professor Geller’s long, thoughtful, beautifully-written essay, “ Where Could a Rabbit Run? What John Updike Shows About Marriage,” at my personal blog. What I am ...

Serendipity is not only a long word that’s easy to spell — it’s a real phenomenon. (And no, I’m not paid by the syllable.) The following is based on true events. A couple of weeks ago in this space, I ...

From Selected Letters of John Updike, which will be published next month by Knopf. This letter, dated May 2, 1989, was a reply to Mark Thomashow, a Nike employee who had written to Updike after seeing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Serendipity is not only a long word that’s easy to spell — it’s a real phenomenon. (And no, I’m not paid by the syllable.) The ...