I love John Updike but I had to stop reading ‘Couples’ because it was so compulsively nasty that for the two weeks I was nose deep it genuinely made me a meaner, and like, Activated for a Fight. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
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Cancel John Updike? Not so fast
The great writer has been branded a misogynist and narcissist. Yet as his letters prove, his writing remains uncannily evocative