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 (Richardt)
   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)