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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

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

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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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

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

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

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

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