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 ...

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 ...

We have a new Thomas Pynchon book due out this month. There are reviews of it in the New Yorker and in the New York Review of Books. I'm sure the reviewers, bless their hearts, have missed something ...

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 ...