Still Looking
Essays on American Art
From a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes a richly illustrated book of eighteen insightful essays about American art, written while he was the art critic at The New York Review of Books.
“Remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —Newsday
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just…
$55.00
November 8, 2005
JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
Selected Letters of John Updike
John Updike; Edited by James Schiff
Selected Poems of John Updike
John Updike; Edited by Christopher Carduff
Olinger Stories
John Updike
S.
John Updike
Buchanan Dying
John Updike
Hugging the Shore
John Updike
Picked-Up Pieces
John Updike
Odd Jobs
John Updike
Always Looking
John Updike
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell
Assorted Prose
John Updike
Museums & Women and Other Stories
John Updike
The Music School
John Updike