In yet another mark of my lack of sophistication, I have to confess to only ever having read two Pynchon novels. And what’s worse, they’re his two shortest. Spaced about twenty years apart, there was ...

There’s also the fact that Pynchon’s work speaks so powerfully to our troubled, unstable geopolitical moment. Pynchon has always been a deeply political artist. Underneath the corny jokes and impish ...

Shadow Ticket starts with a bang. “The explosion when it comes seems to be from somewhere across the river and nearer the Lake,” Thomas Pynchon writes. “Nobody seems surprised.” In language and ...

That in this his 88th year Thomas Pynchon has published another novel, set in Milwaukee, of all places, packed full of punny names per usual, featuring a lug of a detective, like the bruiser ...

Sixty years ago, in his second novel, “The Crying of Lot 49,” Thomas Pynchon described a phenomenon that might double as an anticipatory description of his entire career. “Oedipa wondered whether, at ...

With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along. By Tim Teeman Call it a Pynchon-palooza! “Shadow ...