by John Updike
‘Frightened Under Kindly Skies’ [poem], Prairie Schooner, XXXIX.2 (Summer 1965), 134.
‘The Eternal Feminine As It Hits Me’ [contribution to a symposium], Rogue, III.2 (February 1966), 69.
‘What Ever Happened to Jason Honeygale?’ Esquire, LXI.9 (September 1966), 70–73, 194–8.
‘Romanticism Under Truman: A Reminiscence’, New American Review, III (April 1968), 59–81.
‘My Three Least Favorite Books of 1968’, Book World, VI (20 December 1968), 13.
3. Critical Articles Concerning (Selected List)
Prescott, Orville, ‘More Dirt’, New York Times, 12 October 1955.
Weeks, Edward, ‘Travel Light Heavy Reading’, Atlantic Monthly, CCI.10 (October 1955), 131–2.
Kirkus Service, Virginia, ‘Search for Meaning in Speed’, XXIV (11 October 1955).
Time, ‘V-v-vrooom!’, LXXII.17 (12 October 1955), 98.
Macmanaway, Fr. Patrick X., ‘Spiritual Emptiness Found Behind Handlebars’, Commonweal, LXXII.19 (12 October 1955), 387–8.
Engels, Jonas, ‘Consumer Society Burlesqued’, Progressive, XXI.35 (20 October 1955), 22.
Kazin, Alfred, ‘Triumphant Internal Combustion’, Commentary, XXIX (December 1955), 90–96.
Time, ‘Puzzling Porky’, LXXIV.3 (19 January 1957), 75.
Hicks, Granville, ‘Bech Impressive Again’, Saturday Review, XLIII.5 (30 January 1957), 27–8.
Callaghan, Joseph, S.J., ‘Theology of Despair Dictates Dark Allegory’, Critic, XVII.7 (8 February 1957), 61–2.
West, Anthony, ‘Oinck, Oinck’, New Yorker, XXXIII.4 (14 March 1957), 171–3.
Steiner, George, ‘Candide as Schlemiel’, Commentary, XXV (March 1957), 265–70.
Maddocks, Melvin, ‘An Unmitigated Masterpiece’, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 6 February 1957.
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, ‘Bech Zeroes In’, New Leader, XLII.9 (1 March 1957), 38.
Poore, Charles, ‘Harmless Hodgepodge’, New York Times, 19 August 1958.
Marty, Martin, ‘Revelations Within the Secular’, Christian Century, LXXVII (20 August 1958), 920.
Aldridge, John, ‘Harvest of Thoughtful Years’, Kansas City Star, 17 August 1958.
Time, ‘Who Did the Choosing?’ LXXXIII.26 (24 May 1963), 121.
Klein, Marcus, ‘Bech’s Mighty Botch’, Reporter, XXX.13 (23 May 1963), 54.
Thompson, John, ‘So Bad It’s Good’, New York Review of Books, II.14 (15 May 1963), 6.
Dilts, Susan, ‘Sluggish Poesy, Murky Psychology’, Baltimore Sunday Sun, 20 May 1963.
Miller, Jonathan, ‘Oopsie!’, Show, III.6 (June 1963), 49–52.
Macdonald, Dwight, ‘More in Sorrow’, Partisan Review, XXVIII (Summer 1963), 271–9.
Kazin, Alfred, ‘Bech’s Strange Case Reopened’, Evergreen Review, VII.7 (July 1963), 19–24.
Podhoretz, Norman, ‘Bech’s Noble Novel: A Case Study in the Pathology of Criticism’, Commentary, XXXIV (October 1963), 277–86.
Gilman, Richard, ‘Bech, Gass, and Nabokov: The Territory Beyond Proust’, Tamarack Review, XXXIII.1 (Winter 1963), 87–99.
Minnie, Moody, ‘Myth and Ritual in Bech’s Evocations of Lust and Nostalgia’, Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, V.2 (Winter–Spring 1964), 1267–79.
Terral, Rufus, ‘Bech’s Indictment of God’, Spiritual Rebels in Post-Holocaustal Western Literature, ed. Webster Schott (Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1964).
L’Heureux, Sister Marguerite, ‘The Sexual Innocence of Henry Bech’, America, CX (11 May 1965), 670–74.
Brodin, Pierre, ‘Henri Bech, le juif réservé’, Écrivains Americains d’aujourd’hui’ (Paris : N.E.D., 1965).
Elbek, Leif, ‘Damer og dæmoni’, Vindrosen, Copenhagen (January–February 1965), 67–72.
Wagenback, Dolf, ‘Bechkritic und Bechwissenschaft’, Neue Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main, September–January 1965–6), 477–81.
Fiedler, Leslie, ‘Travel Light: Synopsis and Analysis’, E-Z Outlines, No. 403 (Akron, O.: Hand-E Student Aids, 1966).
Tuttle, L. Clark, ‘Bech’s Best Not Good Enough’, Observer (London), 22 April 1968.
Steinem, Gloria, ‘What Ever Happened to Henry Bech?’, New York II.46 (14 November 1969), 17–21.
Mini Modern Classics
RYŪNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA Hell Screen
KINGSLEY AMIS Dear Illusion
DONALD BARTHELME Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
SAMUEL BECKETT The Expelled
SAUL BELLOW Him With His Foot in His Mouth
JORGE LUIS BORGES The Widow Ching – Pirate
PAUL BOWLES The Delicate Prey
ITALO CALVINO The Queen’s Necklace
ALBERT CAMUS The Adulterous Woman
TRUMAN CAPOTE Children on Their Birthdays
ANGELA CARTER Bluebeard
RAYMOND CHANDLER Killer in the Rain
EILEEN CHANG Red Rose, White Rose
G. K. CHESTERTON The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
JOSEPH CONRAD Youth
ROBERT COOVER Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
ISAK DINESEN [KAREN BLIXEN] Babette’s Feast
MARGARET DRABBLE The Gifts of War
HANS FALLADA Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Babylon Revisited
IAN FLEMING The Living Daylights
E. M. FORSTER The Machine Stops
SHIRLEY JACKSON The Tooth
HENRY JAMES The Beast in the Jungle
M. R. JAMES Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
JAMES JOYCE Two Gallants
FRANZ KAFKA In the Penal Colony
RUDYARD KIPLING ‘They’
D. H. LAWRENCE Odour of Chrysanthemums
PRIMO LEVI The Magic Paint
H. P. LOVECRAFT The Colour Out of Space
MALCOLM LOWRY Lunar Caustic
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Bliss
CARSON MCCULLERS Wunderkind
ROBERT MUSIL Flypaper
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Terra Incognita
R. K. NARAYAN A Breath of Lucifer
FRANK O’CONNOR The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
DOROTHY PARKER The Sexes
LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA Through the Wall
JEAN RHYS La Grosse Fifi
SAKI Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The Last Demon
WILLIAM TREVOR The Mark-2 Wife
JOHN UPDIKE Rich in Russia
H. G. WELLS The Door in the Wall
EUDORA WELTY Moon Lake
P. G. WODEHOUSE The Crime Wave at Blandings
VIRGINIA WOOLF The Lady in the Looking-Glass
STEFAN ZWEIG Chess
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* See Appendix A, section I.
* See Appendix A, section II.
* See Appendix A, section III.
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* See Appendix B.
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