John Updike
For his 22nd novel, John Updike could have stuck to one of his well-established fictional templates – perhaps another angst-ridden upper-middle-class marriage set in New England. Instead, his new novel Terrorist follows a half-Egyptian teenager in New Jersey who is mesmerized by radical Islam. Updike leads Kurt Andersen through the new terrain.
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