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Philip Roth vs John Updike

Steve Sailer writes: I hadn’t planned to buy the new authorized biography of novelist Philip Roth, author of Portnoy’s Complaint and American Pastoral, because I am at best a lazy admirer of Roth, having read only a handful of books … Continue reading

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Roth Vs Updike

00:00 Steve Sailer on Roth v Updike, https://www.takimag.com/article/roth-vs-updike/ 05:35 The Neoconservative Fairy Tale, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_jgZrLV1KE 09:00 What are the paleocons conserving? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139278 10:00 No, Paleoconservatives Are Not Helping the Left, https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/08/no-paleoconservatives-are-not-helping-the-left/ 12:00 The Declaration of Independence, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139107 14:00 Michael Anton (Claremont … Continue reading

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Roger’s Version

John Updike’s pragmatic embrace of Christianity reminds me of many on the Dissident Right (as well as former Nazis in post-WWII Germany) who take on Christianity as a socially acceptable expression of their traditionalist views. Frederick Crews writes: * Updike’s … Continue reading

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The Coup by John Updike

Steve Sailer praises this book as Updike’s best. Here’s an excerpt: Mr. Cunningham, freshly reinforced by his bottled cohort, pursued his interesting question, which was, “What do you make of our American colored people?” I had already enough converse with … Continue reading

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Roger’s Version

The protagonist in this John Updike novel, Roger, a divinity professor, wants to bed Verna, the single-mother daughter of his half-sister. Roger convinces her to get an abortion. Adam Begley writes in his biography of John Updike: In the dingy … Continue reading

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