In "Shadow Ticket", the Long Island novelist takes readers on a journey through his usual tropes: shifts in setting, hints of ...

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Though he's lived in New York City since the early 1990s, after decades of a famously fugitive existence in and out of America, Thomas Pynchon now seems, at last, to have moved in. Having breathed New ...

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Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry “Doc” Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, ...

Thomas Pynchon’s novels range from short, approachable mysteries to sprawling, genre-blending epics, making it possible for every kind of reader to find a match. His works combine history, surrealism, ...

Rumor has it that famously elusive author Thomas Pynchon—whose last confirmed photographs, outside of some blurry news footage, date from over 50 years ago--appears somewhere in the trailer for Paul ...

What’s that, you say? America’s most reclusive author, Thomas Pynchon, appeared in the news Friday -- not once but twice? Why, yes, yes, he has, surfacing in two unconnected rumors. Conspiracy?

Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” is his third consecutive novel to center on a private investigator. Like “Inherent Vice” (2009) and “Bleeding Edge” (2013), it has an evocative if incidental two-word ...

Three protagonists who changed how postwar U.S. thought of itself. By Rose Courteau Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker With the famously private novelist enjoying a ...