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 ...

Two of Updike’s most memorable fictional characters, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom and Henry Bech, became emblems of the displaced American male that fascinated him. Angstrom, a man he often referred to as ...

BBC Worldwide-backed producer Lookout Point has secured the rights to John Updike’s “Rabbit” novels, with “Bridget Jones’s Diary” scribe Andrew Davies set to adapt the series of books for TV. No ...

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 doesn’t take John Updike long to get around to sex. And why not. Sex, it seems, shares a twin bill with God as a central preoccupation of modern man, and certainly of the man to whose life story ...