Elizabeth Cobblah

Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

Arts & Literature

“I will read my father more closely now that John McTavish has shone a light on the delicate and deep tensions present as Updike's characters grapple with the complexities of being fully human. Do our physical urges diminish our spiritual yearnings, or do they uphold each other? Mr. McTavish reveals the soul of Updike's work and the spirit of a twentieth-century American writer engaged with conflicting and life-affirming truths.”