Knowingly overblown and gloriously inscrutable: Shadow Ticket is vintage Thomas Pynchon Maybe you’ve felt, in recent times, that the world has become a more uncertain place. The Conversation · Oct 20, 2025
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2025