On John Updike with Adam Gopnik

Upon the publication of new editions of John Updike’s novels and poetry, Adam Gopnik discusses the life and work of a writer he has praised as “one of the greatest of all modern writers—and the first American since Henry James to get himself fully expressed. The precise, realist, encyclopedic appetite to get it all in and the exquisitist urge to make writing out of sensation rendered exactly were both alive in him. He was at once conjurer and chronicler.”