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10 notable books of 2025: A posthumous memoir about Epstein, 'Hunger Games' and reliving 2024

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

The Independent UK

Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’ - Roll Call

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…

Roll Call

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.

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Thomas Pynchon’s whodunnit is painfully plotless

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

Evening Standard

Lindy-Hopping Nazis and Golems With Guns: The Return of Thomas Pynchon

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

Reason

One Battle After Another Is Paul Thomas Anderson's First True Thriller. Here's Why I Think He Should Make More Of Them

Can we seriously get more of these, Mr. PTA?

Cinemablend

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, set in 1984, is translated for the Trump era in One Battle After Another

Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender.

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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

'One Battle After Another' review: Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio deliver an ambitious epic

The auteur's latest film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary in hiding with his teenage daughter.

Tom’s Guide

‘One Battle After Another’ Review: The Best Movie Of The Year Is A Modern Action Masterpiece

Leonardo DiCaprio has never been better than in Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary thriller.

Inverse

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

The Guardian - UK

One Battle After Another review – Leonardo DiCaprio clowns his way through a ferocious American masterpiece

5/5 Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a swaggering, funny and timely action epic, where momentum never lets up and supporting actors Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor steal the show

The Independent UK

Criminally good: the return of the high-class crime flick

A wave of smart, original mysteries, thrillers and heist dramas arrives this autumn from auteurs including Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Kelly Reichardt and Darren Aronofsky

The Guardian - UK

If You're Looking To Get Into Paul Thomas Anderson's Films, Here's Where I Think You Should Start

We're talking master filmmaking here.

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New novel from reclusive author Thomas Pynchon coming this year

After 12 years away, the famously reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is set to return this year with his 10th book.

The Independent UK

Thomas Pynchon announces new novel Shadow Ticket, his first in 12 years

Like his previous two novels, Pynchon’s next book is a noir detective story

The Guardian - UK

Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade

The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress

Total Film

Leonardo DiCaprio is a gun-slinging ex-revolutionary on a mission in first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy One Battle After Another

The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's political black comedy has arrived

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The Guardian - UK

First trailer arrives for Paul Thomas Anderson’s collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio

One Battle After Another is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s experimental postmodern novel Vineland and will also feature Benicio Del Toro, Alana Haim and Sean Penn

The Guardian - UK

Tom Robbins obituary

Novelist whose biggest seller was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which Thomas Pynchon hoped would change the ‘brainscape of America’

The Guardian - UK

From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

Inverse

10 Years Ago, A Legendary Director Made A Confounding Noir Thriller That Deserves Reappraisal

A hell of a lot unfolds when you combine Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon, and Joaquin Phoenix.

The Guardian - UK

Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature

With odds of 10/1, the author of Love in the New Millennium, who was also the favourite last year, leads a pack that includes Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood

Evening Standard

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

The Guardian - UK

Paul Murray: ‘I just dumped all my sadness into the book’

The Irish novelist on his wife’s response to his darkly comic new book, the ghosts that haunt his country, his love of Thomas Pynchon and distrust of Dickens

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