His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
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With Shadow Ticket, Pynchon reminds us the line between chaos and order, corruption and truth, remains as thin, porous and perilous as ever.
Vineland is set in Reagan’s America: an era of conservative backlash and retreat from progressive ideals. Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation reflects similar trends now.
Short-circuiting the language of literary value, permanently wrongfooting the custodians of taste, Gravity’s Rainbow proposes a new way of thinking about what we treasure most.
