Books & the Arts / Thomas Pynchon’s America. Benjamin Kunkel If God had a personality, what would it be like? The two most ...

With next week’s publication of his ninth novel, “Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s secret 20th century is at last complete. For many of us, Pynchon is the best American writer since F. Scott ...

Some smart people need to lighten up; if any smart person ever needed to quit lightening up, it’s Thomas Pynchon. Possessed by one of the most awesome writing talents of any living writer, he fills ...

Very few people are as famous and yet as unknown as Thomas Pynchon, the US author who has millions of fans but is rarely seen in person. He has been tipped for the Nobel Prize for Literature over the ...

For half a century, Thomas Pynchon has been America's preeminent novelist of paranoia, the writer who sees patterns and connections where others find only the random detritus of history. His emblem ...

Superlatives may get people's attention, but they don't do much to reward it. So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen ...

It has been 50 years since Thomas Pynchon’s first book, “V.,” was published. That he is still turning out works of dizzying complexity is, frankly, astounding. Few authors remain as ambitious and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Thomas Pynchon has surfaced in a remarkable book collection and the ...

The world we all consider the real one is nothing but a thin veneer – barely concealing mythical creatures, vast escape tunnels and underground rainstorms, among other supernatural and magical ...

Thomas Pynchon's new behemoth of a book, "Against the Day," is likely to have readers responding in one of two ways; either they will think it is one of the greatest novels ever written, or they will ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker 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 ...