Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket is transcendent and exhausting
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
The Echoes is full of ghosts
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
The late novelist’s wound was more gaping than most
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed