The Latest Breaking News from Thomas Pynchon

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.

Euronews · Apr 10, 2025

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 Independent UK · Apr 9, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2025

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.

Inverse · Dec 12, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2024

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023

Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow at 50

Books age at variable rates. Some, indexed to topicalities with mayfly longevities, are decrepit before they’re published. Others, lively and seductive on first appearance, are dry husks a decade later. More durable works may still feel noble a century hence, if suspended in aspic.

The Conversation · Feb 27, 2023

Cullercoats author's debut novel named among best new crime fiction for May in The Times

The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James was picked as one of the Times' best new fiction books for the month

Chronicle Live · May 12, 2022