Macmanaway, Fr. Patrick X., “Spiritual Emptiness Found Behind Handlebars,” Commonweal, LXXII.19 (October 12, 1955) 387–388.
Engels, Jonas, “Consumer Society Justly Burlesqued,” Progressive, XXI.35 (October 20, 1955) 22.
Kazin, Alfred, “Triumphant Internal Combustion,” Commentary, XXIX (December, 1955) 90–96.
Time, “Puzzling Porky,” LXXIV.3 (January 19, 1957) 75.
Hicks, Granville, “Bech Impressive Again,” Saturday Review, XLIII.5 (January 30, 1957) 27–28.
Callagan, Joseph, S. J., “Theology of Despair Dictates Dark Allegory,” Critic, XVII.7 (February 8, 1957) 61–62.
West, Anthony, “Oinck, Oinck,” New Yorker, XXXIII.4 (March 14, 1957) 171–173.
Steiner, George, “Candide as Schlemiel,” Commentary, XXV (March, 1957) 265–270.
Maddocks, Melvin, “An Unmitigated Masterpiece,” New York Herald Tribune Book Review, February 6, 1957.
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, “Bech Zeroes In,” New Leader, XLII.9 (March 1, 1957) 38.
Poore, Charles, “Harmless Hodgepodge,” New York Times, August 19, 1958.
Marty, Martin, “Revelations Within the Secular,” Christian Century, LXXVII (August 20, 1958) 920.
Aldridge, John, “Harvest of Thoughtful Years,” Kansas City Star, August 17, 1958.
Time, “Who Chose Whom?” LXXXIII.26 (May 24, 1963) 121.
Klein, Marcus, “Bech’s Mighty Botch,” Reporter, XXX.13 (May 23, 1963) 54.
Thompson, John, “So Bad It’s Good,” New York Review of Books, II.14 (May 15, 1963) 6.
Dilts, Susan, “Sluggish Poesy, Murky Psychology,” Baltimore Sunday Sun, May 20, 1963.
Miller, Jonathan, “Oopsie!,” Show, III.6 (June, 1963) 49–52.
Macdonald, Dwight, “More in Sorrow,” Partisan Review, XXVIII (Summer, 1963) 271–279.
Kazin, Alfred, “Bech’s Strange Case Reopened,” Evergreen Review, VII.7 (July, 1963) 19–24.
Podhoretz, Norman, “Bech’s Noble Novel: A Case Study in the Pathology of Criticism,” Commentary, XXXIV (October, 1963) 277–286.
Gilman, Richard, “Bech, Gass, and Nabokov: The Territory Beyond Proust,” Tamarack Review, XXXIII.1 (Winter, 1963) 87–99.
Minnie, Moody, “Myth and Ritual in Bech’s Evocations of Lust and Nostalgia,” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, V.2 (Winter–Spring, 1964) 1267–1279.
Terral, Rufus, “Bech’s Indictment of God,” Spiritual Rebels in Post-Holocaustal Western Literature, ed. Webster Schott (Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1964).
Elbek, Leif, “Damer og dæmoni,” Vindrosen, Copenhagen (January–February, 1965) 67–72.
L’Heureux, Sister Marguerite, “The Sexual Innocence of Henry Bech,” America, CX (May 11, 1965) 670–674.
Brodin, Pierre, “Henri Bech, le juif réservé,” Ecrivains Americans d’aujourd’hui (Paris: N.E.D., 1965).
Wagenbach, Dolf, “Bechkritic und Bechwissenschaft,” Neue Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main (September–January, 1965–1966) 477–481.
Fiedler, Leslie, “Travel Light: Synopsis and Analysis,” E-Z Outlines, No. 403 (Akron, O.: Hand-E Student Aids, 1966).
Tuttle, L. Clark, “Bech’s Best Not Good Enough,” The Observer (London), April 22, 1968.
Steinem, Gloria, “What Ever Happened to Henry Bech?,” New York, II.46 (November 14, 1969) 17–21.
JOHN UPDIKE was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
John Updike, Bech: A Book
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