Jonathan Lethem

Frantic Realism

Paul Thomas Anderson fits a generation’s worth of cineplex joys into One Battle After Another, but the revolution refuses to get off the couch.

The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration

What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?

Cross-Country Tripping

“Even before I ever drove, I was in some sense connected to this resonance with road-tripping by proxy, through the archetypes in literature and cinema, just as I’d become interested in the desert west before I ever got there.”

Grand Poobah of the Antigrandiose

In his five very different novels Charles Portis’s signature was deflation, his attention always fixed on how the world declines to make sense.

Snowden in the Labyrinth

Edward Snowden’s ‘Permanent Record’