Each season brings its own collision of new voices, late-career swerves and returns to long-shadowed figures. This week's books offer that full spectrum. A nonagenarian master wanders back into the ...

It’s a big deal when the writer many consider the greatest living American novelist publishes his first novel in 12 years. That the writer, Thomas Pynchon, is 88, and the novel, “Shadow Ticket,” is so ...

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, ...

Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s latest (and, for an octogenarian author, possibly last) novel, opens with a bang. It is 1932, and Hicks McTaggart, a private eye in the employ of Unamalgamated Ops and ...

Fans left the Dec. 19 performance of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” buzzing after a once-in-a-lifetime moment: Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Henry Creel/Vecna on the hit Netflix series, made a ...