National Review, February 1st, 1993
Memories of the Ford Administration, by John Updike (Knopf,, 331 pp., $23)
WHAT has happened to John Updike? He is pursuing acedia-the terrifying condition of not much caring about anything-with alarming determination. His most recent New Yorker stories have all been about codgers--but not, as one might have anticipated from his luminous early work, codgers engaged with their situation in life. No they are all about codgers disengaging. And whereas Updike has always been supremely talented at cloaking his essentially literary perceptions within non-literary characters, in his recent fiction...
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