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John Updike •ï¿½723 Items / 57 Books, 180 Articles, 357 Reviews, 129 Poems
The Coup (1978)
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    Void Camouflaged by Vocabulary (Review)
    Whit Stillman
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    Chronicles, July 1979, pp. 16-17
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    Updike le Noir (Review)
    John Thompson
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The New York Review of Books, December 21, 1978, p. 3
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    Books: Updike Country (Review)
    Alastair Reid
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The New Yorker, December 25, 1978, pp. 65-68
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    Books: Jungle Music (Review)
    William F. Buckley Jr.
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    New York Magazine, December 18, 1978, p. 93
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    The King's Head (Review)
    David Lodge
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The New Statesman, March 23, 1979, p. 404
  6. [+]
    "Charleston Morning" (Review)
    Joyce Carol Oates
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The New Republic, January 6, 1979, pp. 32-33
  7. Books Arts & Manners
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    An Affirmative Action (Review)
    David Evanier
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    National Review, April 13, 1979, p. 490
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    Cultural Deformations (Review)
    Gene Lyons
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The Nation, February 3, 1979, pp. 117-119
  9. Books
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    Lyric and Loving (Review)
    Anthony Burgess
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    Inquiry, December 11, 1978, pp. 12-13
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    Boy's Life (Review)
    Deborah McGill
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The Harpers Monthly, January 1979, pp. 87-89
  11. Book Reviews
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    Post Scripts (Review)
    David Brudnoy
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    The Saturday Evening Post, May 1979, p. 86
  12. Fiction
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    Imaginings of Africa (2 Reviews)
    Pearl K. Bell
    The Coup, by John Updike
    1. The Coup by John Updike
    2. The Confessions of Josef Baisz by Dan Jacobson
    Commentary, April 1979, pp. 74-77
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    Operatic Surface, Deep Politics (6 Reviews)
    Tom Paulin
    Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer
    1. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
    2. The Coup by John Updike
    3. Good As Gold by Joseph Heller
    4. Only Children by Alison Lurie
    5. Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark
    6. I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag
    Encounter, August 1979, pp. 51-57
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    Recent Books on International Relations (8 Reviews)
    Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
    Africa
    1. Soweto: Black Revolt, White Reaction by John S. Kane-Berman
    2. White Man, We Want to Talk to You by Denis Herbstein
    3. The Trade Union Movement in Africa by Wogu Ananaba
    4. Southern Africa: The Continuing Crisis by Gwendolen Carter and Patrick O'Meara
    5. Intervention in Uganda by Colonel Gad W. Toko
    6. Socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa by Carl G. Rosberg and Thomas M. Callaghy
    7. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
    8. The Coup by John Updike
    Foreign Affairs, Fall 1979, pp. 205-206
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    Picking up the Pieces (10 Reviews)
    Dean Flower
    Secrets and Surprises, by Ann Beattie
    1. Secrets and Surprises by Ann Beattie
    2. Beautiful Girl by Alice Adams
    3. Great Days by Donald Barthelme
    4. Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher
    5. Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach
    6. What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler
    7. The Coup by John Updike
    8. The Confessions of Josef Baisz by Dan Jacobson
    9. Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud
    10. Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1979, pp. 293-307