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Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

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Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 1 – One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic

The Guardian - UK

Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 1 – One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic

The Guardian - UK

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Buy the ‘Shadow Ticket,’ take the ride - Roll Call

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…

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Hill insiders share favorite books of 2025 - Roll Call

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

Roll Call

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…

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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.

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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.

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‘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.

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

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Cinemablend

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.

Euronews

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

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’

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