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“In Jefferson Lecture, Updike Says American Art Is Known by Its Insecurity”

May 30, 2008

A report on John Updike's Jefferson Lecture, delivered here in DC at the Warner Theatre on May 22. The Jefferson Lecture is sponsored by the NEH and is the federal government's highest honor for "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."

Recent Writing

  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”
  • “The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library”

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  • Book event: VA Festival of the Book “Shelf Life”
  • Interview: “Rising Up With Sonali”
  • Live at East City Bookshop

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  • The TLS: “Coming Clean” (review)
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