In my youth, like every other aspiring intellectual, I knew I had to read Thomas Pynchon. He was one of the great living American novelists, along with McCarthy, DeLillo and Roth. But while I enjoyed ...

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 ...

Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s latest (and, for an octogenarian author, possibly last) novel, opens with a bang. It is 1932, and Hicks McTaggart, a private eye in the employ of Unamalgamated Ops and ...

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 ...

The novelist anticipated our bizarre present. How does his latest book hold up in an age of eroding reality? By Parul Sehgal “Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing ...