"John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort."The New York Times Book Review
"A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation."The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have."Newsday