Thomas Pynchon

  • The fall of the house of Pynchon

    Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd Thomas Pynchon's cartoonish new novel, it's obvious his disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does.
    By Laura Miller November 21, 2006

  • The Fix

    Anna Nicole's son's death cleared up, but the mystery of her baby's daddy deepens. Plus: Screech's sex tape, the preview.
    September 28, 2006

  • How to get a blurb from Thomas Pynchon

    Start by sending him your novel -- it can't hurt.
    By Craig Offman October 15, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Mimi Fariña was tempting jailbait. Her husband, Richard, fought alongside Castro, sold guns and called Thomas Pynchon a pal.
    By David Bowman October 13, 1999

  • Deep code

    Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software.
    By Andrew Leonard May 19, 1999

  • Going Up

    "The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel
    By Laura Miller January 12, 1999

  • Terrible swift sword

    David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
    By David Bowman December 3, 1998

  • The year in books

    Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
    By Dwight Garner December 24, 1997

  • Media Circus

    A map to the online homes of the literary stars.
    By Dwight Garner May 23, 1997

  • Weird morning in America

    A review of Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"
    By Scott McLemee April 25, 1997
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