There is an oft-repeated internet maxim, usually attributed to George Orwell or Voltaire but actually coined by a neo-Nazi, ...

In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories. By Alexandra Jacobs It’s not quite #MeToo, but a ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. Toward the end of his life John Cheever was festooned in honors. In 1977, his novel ...

John Cheever, shown above in 1975, enjoyed a revival in the late 1970s when The Stories Of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award.

To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," click the arrow on the player ...

On Home Before Dark : A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter, by Susan Cheever. But I was also angered by the piece. There was, first of all, the question of propriety. I am aware of how ...

The land of John Cheever lies in the suburbs of another time. It's a world of well-scrubbed children skipping on manicured lawns. The men in their Brooks Brothers suits catch commuter trains and make ...

At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...

BULLET PARK by John Cheever. 241 pages. Knopf. $5.95. After the final melodramatic act of John Cheever’s new novel—in which a boy barely escapes being turned into a gasoline-soaked torch on the altar ...

John Cheever wrote more than 300 short stories and five novels. Known primarily as a modern master of the short story, he composed fantasies and satirical social commentaries about the people and life ...