The final act of Thomas Pynchon
The most reclusive major author in America is having something of a moment in 2025 and is set to release his ninth novel
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Thursday
Monday
Evie Wyld’s latest novel is unsettling yet hopeful
The Echoes is full of ghosts
Thursday
Charles Baxter’s Blood Test is a necessary novel
The novel’s central conceit serves as a sharp satire of our data-driven, algorithmic age
Monday
The chameleonic life of Claire Clairmont
Lesley McDowell restores Lord Byron’s young lover and Mary Shelley’s step-sister to thrilling, palpitating life
Monday
Kevin Barry’s latest novel is bursting with energy, brutality and poetry
The Heart in Winter is a rambunctious galumph of a story
Friday
Zadie Smith’s latest novel is glittering, grand and powerful
The Fraud is a consciously (but not self-consciously) literary novel
Monday
Blood Meridian is Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece
It may be the Great American Novel critics have searched for
William Boyd’s latest novel is immense fun
In The Romantic , it’s as if Boyd has distilled the essence of centuries of novel-writing
Wednesday
‘Slow Horses’ is thriller television at its best
It’s not funny, but it’s terrific
Wednesday
The return of Thomas Pynchon?
The mysterious novelist posts on a movie character’s Twitter account — or does he?
