by John Updike
humor
“Humor in Fiction” (Updike), fwd.1, 8.1
Hurley, Edward Timothy
Huth, Hans
Hutton, David
Huxley, Aldous
icons, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Ida Thiele (Købke), 15.1, 15.2
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (Lear)
immigration, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Impressionists, Impressionism, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
“Indian, The” (Updike)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 15.1, 16.1
In Memory of the Riesengebirge (Friedrich)
Institute for Advanced Studies
“Intercession” (Updike)
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
“In the Gloaming” (Dark)
Inventing Beauty (Riordan)
inwardness, Romanticism and
Ipoustéguy, Jean, 17.1, 17.2
Ipswich, Mass., 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6
in the Seventies
texts from
Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Waters)
Isaacson, Walter, 19.1, 19.2
Italics Are Mine, The (Berberova)
Italy, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1
art of, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
“I Want to Live!” (Jones)
“I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me” (Updike)
Jackson, Robert E., 18.1, 18.2
Jagger, Mick
James, Henry, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5
James, P. D.
James V, King of Scotland
January, Don
“Janus” (Foley)
Japan
Japanese art, fwd.1, 16.1, 16.2
Jazz (Morrison)
Jen, Gish
Jerusalem (Blake), 15.1, 15.2
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 12.1, 21.1, 21.2
Jews, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 19.1
“J. M. W. Turner and the Pursuit of Fame” (Warrell)
John of the Cross, Saint
Johnson, Lyndon B., 10.1, 21.1
Johnson, Samuel, 8.1, 12.1
Jones, Bobby
Jones, George Frederic
Jones, Judith
Jones, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, 11.1, 11.2
Jones, Mary
Jones, Rebecca
Journals (Kierkegaard)
Jours gigantesques, Les (The Titanic Days; Magritte), 17.1, 17.2
Joyce, James, fwd.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 21.1, 21.2
“July in Washington” (Lowell)
“Jury of Her Peers, A” (Glaspell), 10.1, 10.2
Just, Ward, 12.1, 12.2
“Just Before the War with the Eskimos” (Salinger)
Just Looking (Updike), fwd.1, fwd.2, 17.1
Kael, Pauline
Kafka, Franz, 9.1, 11.1, 17.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Kandinsky, Wassily, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
Kant, Immanuel, 8.1, 15.1
Karmel, Pepe
Karnak, 15.1, 15.2
Karst, John
Katahdin, Mount, 15.1, 15.2
Katahdin from the South Shore of the Lake—from a Study by F. E. Church (King, after Moran)
Katrina, Hurricane, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Kazin, Alfred
Keaton, Buster
Kelly, Grace
Kelly, Kevin, 21.1, 21.2
Kenison, Katrina
Kennedy, James
Kennedy, John F., 10.1, 21.1, 21.2
Kennedy, Minnie, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Kensett, John Frederick
Kepler, Johannes
Kerouac, Jack, 10.1, 21.1
Ketcham, Hank
“Key, The” (Singer)
KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel)
Kierkegaard, Michael
Kierkegaard, Søren, 9.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
“Killers, The” (Hemingway)
Kimball, Robert
King, Francis Scott
Klee, Paul, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5
Klein, Philip
Klimt, Gustav, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Knopf, Alfred, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Knox, John, 10.1, 10.2
Købke, Christen, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Kodak
Koerner, Joseph Leo, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Kokoschka, Oskar, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Konenkova, Margarita
Kosegarten, Gotthard Ludwig
“Lâchez tout” (Breton)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)
Lady in a Fur Wrap (El Greco)
Lahr, Bert
Lancaster, Pa., fwd.1, 21.1, 21.2
Landon, Alf
“Landscape Icons, Tourism, and Land Development” (Davidson)
Landscape in Drenthe (van Gogh)
Landscape Painter F. Sødring (Købke), 15.1, 15.2
landscape painting
American, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
of Købke, 15.1, 15.2
of Lear
of Turner, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Landscape with Deer in a Morning Haze (Homer)
Laocoön (El Greco), 14.1, 14.2
Laplace, Pierre Simon de
Lardner, Ring, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de
Lauder, Ronald S., 17.1, 17.2
laughter, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Laughter in the Dark (Nabokov)
Lawrence, D. H., 21.1, 21.2
Layzer, David
Lear, Ann, 15.1, 15.2
Lear, Edward, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
“Leaves, the Lion-Fish, and the Bear, The” (Cheever)
le Carré, John
“Ledge, The” (Hall)
Lee, Hermione, 11.1
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lehmann, Henri
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
“Lens Factory, The” (Updike), fwd.1, 6.1
Leonard, Elmore
Leonardo da Vinci, 14.1, 15.1
Lépicié, François-Bernard
Lerner, Mary
Lessing, Doris
Letters to Émile Bernard (van Gogh)
“Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment, A” (Bradstreet)
Lewis, C. S., 19.1, 19.2
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, R. W. B.
Lewis, Sinclair, 10.1, 13.1
Licks of Love (Updike)
“Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War” (Updike)
“Life and I” (Wharton), 11.1, 11.2
LIFE Bible College
“Lifeguard” (Updike)
Life in a Medieval Castle (Gies and Gies)
light, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
in Friedrich, 15.1, 15.2
Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory)—the Morning after the Deluge—Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (Turner)
light verse, 10.1, 21.1
Lima earthquakes, 8.1, 8.2
Lincoln, Abraham, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5
Lincoln, Mary
Lincoln, Ill., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Lindsay, Charles, 21.1, 21.2
Lindsay, Sir David
Lindsay, Vachel
Lipsky, David
Lisbon earthquake
“Little Selves” (Lerner)
Lolita (Nabokov), 10.1, 10.2
London, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 17.1, 21.1
van Gogh in
“London” (Blake)
London Royal Academy of Art
Lonely Labyrinth, The (Thompson)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Los Angeles, Calif., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
Magritte show in, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de
love, 8.1, 11.1, 17.1, 21.1
“Love” (Maxwell)
Love (Morrison)
Love Factories (Updike), fwd.1, fwd.2
“Love: First Lessons” (Updike)
love po
etry
love songs
Lowell, Percival
Lowell, Robert
Lubbock, Percy, 11.1, 11.2
Lucas, Bradford
Luijten, Hans
“Lunch Hour” (Updike)
Lushington, Franklin, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Luther, Martin, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 21.1
Lutheran Church, 15.1, 21.1, 21.2
Luzhin Defense, The (Nabokov)
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge)
Macke, August, 17.1, 17.2
Mackenzie, Compton
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Madariaga, Salvador de
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour (Bernard)
“Magic Barrel, The” (Malamud)
Magician’s Assistant, The (Patchett), 12.1, 12.2
Magritte, René, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Mailer, Norman, 9.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
makeup
Malamud, Bernard, 10.1, 10.2
Mallard Drake Hanging on a Wall and a Seville Orange, A (Chardin), 14.1, 14.2
Malraux, André
Manet, Édouard, 15.1, 17.1
Man in Full, A (Wolfe)
Mann, Thomas
Man Reading a Letter to a Woman, A (de Hooch)
Marc, Franz, 17.1, 17.2
Mariette, Pierre-Jean
Marlowe, Christopher
Mars, 19.1
Marshall, Robert, fwd.1, 10.1
Marstrand at the Easel in Eckersberg’s Studio (Købke)
Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury)
Martin, Mary
Masconnomet, 20.1, 20.2
Massachusetts, fwd.1, 11.1
golf in
open space preserved in
Massachusetts, University of (Amherst)
mass reproduction
masturbation, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Matisse, Henri, 14.1, 17.1
Maurice (Forster)
Max Factor (Basten)
Max Factor and Company
Max Factor Make-Up Studio (Donelle Dadigan’s Hollywood History Museum)
Maxwell, Emily Gilman Noyes, 11.1, 11.2
Maxwell, William, fwd.1, fwd.2, 11.1, 21.1
McCarron-Cates, Floramae
McCarthy, Mary, 1.1, 10.1, 21.1, 21.2
McKinley, William
McNab, Robert
McPherson, Aimee Semple
McPherson, Harold
McPherson, James Alan, 10.1, 10.2
Meany, George, 12.1, 12.2
Mellon, Andrew
Melville, Herman, 1.1, 21.1
Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson)
Memories of the Ford Administration (Updike)
Men at War (Hemingway)
Mencken, H. L., 10.1, 13.1
“Meneseteung” (Munro)
mental illness, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1
of van Gogh, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
Mercy, A (Morrison)
Merman, Ethel
Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women, A (de Hooch), 14.1, 14.2
“Metamorphosis” (Updike)
Methodist Challenge
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Blake at, 15.1, 15.2
Chardin at, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
El Greco at, 14.1, 14.2
Ernst at, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Friedrich at, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
New Orleans After the Flood at, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Tilman Riemenschneider at, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Turner at, 15.1, 15.2
van Gogh drawings at, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Meyerowitz, Joel, 18.1, 18.2
“Miami-New York” (Gellhorn)
Michael (Goebbels)
Michaelis, David, 13.1
Michelangelo, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1, 17.2
Middle Ages, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 17.1
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Milton, John, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Minneapolis, Minn., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Minnesota, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Miró, Joan, 17.1, 17.2
Mission Song, The (le Carré)
Mister Johnson (Cary)
Moby-Dick (Melville)
modernism, 9.1, 11.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Modern Painters (Ruskin)
Modigliani, Amedeo, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Mondrian, Piet, 16.1, 17.1
Monet, Claude, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1
Monroe, Marilyn
Month of Sundays, A (Updike)
Moods of La Habana (Polidori)
Moonrise by the Sea (Friedrich), 15.1, 15.2
Moran, Thomas, 15.1, 15.2
Moravian Brethren
More Matter, fwd.1, fwd.2, fwd.3, 21.1
Morgan Library and Museum, 16.1, 16.2
Morning in the Mountains (Rosenblum)
Morning Toilet, The (Chardin), 14.1, 14.2
Morris, Desmond
Morris, Wright
Morrison, Toni, 12.1
Mortlake Terrace, the Seat of William Moffatt, Esq.; Summer’s Evening (Turner)
Mother and Child with Its Head in Her Lap, A (de Hooch), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)
movies, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Münnerstadt altarpiece, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Munro, Alice
Murdoch, Iris, 1.1, 21.1
Musée des Arts Decoratifs
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), fwd.1 15.1, 17.1
Schiele at, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Seurat drawings at, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Museums and Women (Updike)
Museums New York
music, 10.1, 10.2, 21.1, 21.2
Musical Instruments and Basket of Fruit (Chardin)
Music Party in a Hall, A (de Hooch)
“My Dead Brother Comes to America” (Godin)
“My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (song)
Mystery of Golf, The (Haultain), 10.1
Nabokov, Véra
Nabokov, Vladimir, fwd.1, fwd.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 21.1, 21.2
Naked Ape, The (Morris)
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Napoleonic Wars, 15.1, 15.2
Nash, Ogden
National Cartoon Society
National Gallery (London)
National Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 14.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2
Native Americans, 10.1, 15.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1
nature, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 20.1, 20.2
see also
Nature and the American (Huth)
Nazis, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 19.1
“Nearing Ninety” (Maxwell), 11.1, 11.2
Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)
Nernst, Walther Hermann
“Nessus at Noon” (Updike), fwd.1, 3.1
Netherlands, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
see also Amsterdam; Delft; Dutch art
Nets, The (Friedrich)
Neue Gallery, New York, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
Neuzil, Valerie (Wally)
Nevins, Allan
New Deal, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Newman, Allen George, 17.1, 17.2
New Orleans, La., 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Newton, Sir Isaac, 15.1, 19.1, 19.2
Newton (Blake)
“Newton’s Law” (Maxwell)
New York City, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 21.1
see also Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art
New Yorker, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 21.1
Updike in, fwd.1, fwd.2, fwd.3 fwd.4, 10.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8, 21.9, 21.10
Updike’s rejections from, 1.1, 21.1
New York Review of Books, fwd.1, fwd.2, fwd.3
New York Stock Exchange
New York Times Book Review
New York Times Magazine
Niagara (Church)
Niagara Falls from the American Side (Church)
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
Night Stroll (Seurat)
Night Thoughts (Young)
Nineteen Eighty-four (Orwell)
Nixon, Richard
Noakes, Vivien
Nobel Prize, 1.1, 9.1, 19.1
Norwegian immigrants
“Not Cancelled Yet” (Updike), fwd.1, 7.1
Nouvel Observateur
Novel History (essays-and-replies)
Nubia
nudes, nudity, fwd.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
female, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6
male, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
photos of
Nude Self-Portrait (Schiele), 17.1, 17.2
Nuremberg, 14.1, 14.2
Nursery on Schenkweg (van Gogh)
Oates, Joyce Carol, 10.1, 21.1
O’Brien, Flann
“Ocean, The” (Cheever)
Ocean of Words (Ha Jin)
O’Connor, Flannery, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
O’Connor, Frank
Ó Criomhthain, Tomás
Odd Jobs (Updike), fwd.1, fwd.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Ó Grianna, Séamas
O’Hara, John, 10.1, 21.1
old age, fwd.1, fwd.2, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway)
Olinger Stories (Updike)
Olmsted, Frederick Law
“One of My Generation” (Updike)
On Photography (Sontag), 18.1, 18.2
On the Road (Kerouac)
On the Road, Two Hours from Tepelene (Lear), 15.1, 15.2
On the Sailboat (Friedrich), 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Opening of the Fifth Seed, The (El Greco)
Orchard with Arles in the Background (van Gogh)
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
Orlando (Woolf)
Ormiston, Kenneth Gladstone
Orwell, George, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Ouimet, Francis, 20.1, 20.2
Our Game (le Carré)
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
Oxford, fwd.1, 21.1, 21.2
Oxford Book of American Light Verse
Oxford Companion to Art, The
Ozick, Cynthia, 10.1, 10.2
Painter Edward Lear, The (Noakes), 15.1, 15.2
paintings
of Bernard
Danish, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
of de Hooch, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
of El Greco, 14.1, 14.2
of Friedrich, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
of Lear, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
of Turner, 15.1, 15.2
of van Gogh, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
of Vermeer, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 16.1
see also landscape painting; portraits; self-portraits
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
Palmer, Arnold, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2
Palmer, Samuel
Pan-Cake makeup
Paradise (Morrison)
