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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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’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 ...

“I grew up in a house full of paintings and books,” Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture (2024). “My father made the paintings and my mother handed ...

“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 ...