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Director won the Oscar for his critically acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland

Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s 2013 novel “Bleeding Edge,” and how its story about the dot-com bubble and 9/11 applies to the present day, with politics and society dominated by AI, technology and venture capitalism firms running wild and the national security apparatus pushing war here, there…

Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, “Shadow Ticket,” set in 1932 in the perilous transition time between two world wars, has a lot to say about contemporary politics. The 88-year-old author’s latest book, his 10th, is getting praised by everyone from the New York Review of Books to Reason Magazine, and that…

With America’s semiquincentennial approaching, history was a hot topic this year, along with naval strategy, fabulist noir and reflections on going home.

The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon

Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” how it leads to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “One Battle After Another,” the conversation those two works have about American culture and politics, as well as the 1960s left, the Nixonian right, Reaganism, the drug war, Trumpism and, for good…

Maybe you’ve felt, in recent times, that the world has become a more uncertain place.

I couldn’t read it — and trust me, I tried. There are sentences here that go on for half a page and still go nowhere

In Shadow Ticket, characters are forever finding refuge in the folds of the map.