Updike Misses Jihad

Published on July 5, 2006

“If only the novelist had spent more time dreaming himself into the paranoid and angry world of Qutb and his followers…” Jonathan Raban on the failure of John Updike to comprehend jihad.

“If only the novelist had spent more time dreaming himself into the paranoid and angry world of Qutb and his followers…” Jonathan Raban on the failure of John Updike to comprehend jihad.

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