The celebrated author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary ...

Depending on who you listen to, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr is either one of America’s greatest living writers, a strange and hilarious critic of its postwar excesses; or a mere oddball whose densely ...

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America’s best-known, least-seen writer is back with a swaggering, hard-boiled caper set in a 1930s US toying with fascism ...

Shadow Ticket” may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

I couldn’t read it — and trust me, I tried. There are sentences here that go on for half a page and still go nowhere ...

Vineland, at its core, is preoccupied with the fate of America in the age of mass media and creeping authoritarianism.

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The first half of Thomas Thomas Pynchon's novel "Shadow Ticket" takes place in 1932 Milwaukee, with a gumshoe looking for a ...

A Novel, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 293 pages, $30 My favorite story about Thomas Pynchon, which may or may not be ...

Pynchon’s never been a crowd pleaser. Not everyone is going to appreciate his humor and dense plots that may or may not ...