Writing for The Telegraph, Martin Chilton considers the legacy of John Cheever and cites Updike in the process:

“As his contemporary John Updike put it: ‘John Cheever was often labelled as a writer about suburbia; but many people have written about suburbia. Only Cheever was able to make an archetypal place out of it.”

“John Cheever: ‘the Chekhov of the suburbs’

The article was posted on October 15, 2015.