The Latest Breaking News from Thomas Pynchon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

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

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