Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Fortress of Solitude,” among others, is no stranger to artsy environs, even when they border the atypical. In Ann Arbor this week, ...

The American novelist on writing horror, how Occupy gave capitalism back its name and the thunderbolt that has hit US politics The Blot, Jonathan Lethem’s noirish new novel, centres on Alexander Bruno ...

"I idealize the transmission of intellectual property materials," Jonathan Lethem says (explaining why his novels read like mashups of cultural references, borrowings and outright plagiarisms). "Maybe ...

Whitehead, who like Lethem is the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, said his forthcoming novel, "Sag Harbor," took three and a half years to write, and is now more real to him than the ...

Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Motherless Brooklyn,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1999, is a noir tale of mobsters and P.I.s that slips its suit to become a startling ...

In his new novel, the bard of Boerum Hill interrogates the brutal truths of gentrification. Jonathan Lethem, as he sees it, is the last of his kind—the Brooklyn novelist who wanted to flee Brooklyn.

Jonathan Lethem is a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s, so it’s not by chance that his new novel, The Feral Detective, begins where Chandler’s The Big Sleep leaves off, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, ...

“I’ll drive,” Jonathan Lethem says, holding out his hand for my car keys. “This is going to be important, so you’ll want to take notes.” It’s a good thing he tells me that because nothing about the ...

“I want to be in the audience,” Jonathan Lethem said into a microphone at Vroman’s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon. He slipped off stage and into a front row seat to watch musicians Cindy Lee Berryhill ...