From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel ...

American author Thomas Pynchon’s first novel in more than a decade will be released later this year. Publisher Penguin Random House confirmed that the 87-year-old reclusive novelist has finished his ...

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 ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Seattle is a UNESCO City of Literature, but it’s rarely associated with one of its most renowned former literary residents. The reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, author of such works as “Gravity’s ...

For all the puns, the globetrotting, the exhuming of forgotten American sins and the pomo blenderization of science, poetry, journalism and junk culture, Thomas Pynchon’s now 60-plus-year oeuvre is ...

Rejoice, dear readers, and prepare to welcome a publishing event that's almost as rare — and potentially as disorienting — as the emergence of a brood of cicadas. Thomas Pynchon, our literary recluse ...

From Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith and Margaret Atwood to Barack Obama and the editors of Time magazine, it seems everyone who ...

A confession: I laughed my way through Thomas Pynchon’s flashy, vertiginous “Shadow Ticket,” much as I did when I first read “Vineland” in 1990. As the 88-year-old nears his 90th birthday, he’s still ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

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 ...

In Shadow Ticket, his first novel in 12 years, the 88-year-old master explores the explicitly political dimension of this question. Given the inexorable temptation toward polemic, miscalculation, and ...