A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

A tale of modern witchcraft in Eastwick, Rhode Island.

A collection of prose works by John Updike that he was compiling when he died, includes reviews, criticism, personal essays, sports writing, humor, stories and verse.

A fictional re-creation of the lives of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, in the years before the action of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" begins.

In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always Looking "opens with "The Clarity of Things," the Jefferson...

Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in New Jersey in 1910, experiences a sudden loss of faith, setting the scene for four succeeding generations of family members who wrestle with God.

Updike's fourth volume of nonfictional prose and critique of other authors. Includes section of comments on his own works and endeavors.

A collection of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, and humorous prose by John Updike.

Follows the continuing adventures of moderately well-known Jewish-American writer Henry Bech, now in his seventh decade, as he pursues fame and fortune in the literary world.