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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each season brings its own collision of new voices, late-career swerves and returns to long-shadowed figures. This week's books offer that full spectrum. A nonagenarian master wanders back into the ...

There’s also the fact that Pynchon’s work speaks so powerfully to our troubled, unstable geopolitical moment. Pynchon has always been a deeply political artist. Underneath the corny jokes and impish ...