It was very close to the time when novelist John Updike died early in 2009 that I came across his final two “Rabbit” novels in a collected paperback edition while browsing at National Book Store.

"The great thing about the dead, they make space," muses Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom in 1990's Rabbit at Rest - contemplating his depleted hometown of Brewer, Pennsylvania and perhaps anticipating his own ...

John Updike, let us hope, died more peacefully than his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Rabbit died about 19 years ago, when Rabbit at Rest was published. It has disturbed me ever since, quite ...

In the second of a new series of reviews from the Observer archive, Martin Amis marvels at the third instalment of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit’ series The great postwar American writer John Updike won two ...

John Updike first set Harry ”Rabbit” Angstrom loose upon the world in 1960. ”Rabbit, Run” followed the basketball star of Brewer, Penn., through the ups and downs of marriage and work, and saw him ...

It should come as no surprise that the new decade finds Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom once again keeping time with death. It has always been one of his more familiar companions; it’s part of what gives him ...

Donald Trump. Oprah Winfrey. Bill Cosby. Sexual misconduct. Substance abuse. Junk food. Those individual and subjects, and hundreds more cultural markers, are name-checked or delved into in John ...

(CNN)-- Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, died Tuesday, his publicist said. He was 76. Updike passed away Tuesday morning after ...