Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. Lethem’s father, Richard Brown Lethem, is an artist, his brother is a graffiti and street ...

Jonathan Lethem's new book, "A Different Kind of Tension," is a collection of 30 stories from his 35-year career. The stories are described as genre-bending, speculative, and imaginative, often with ...

You Don’t Love Me Yet may not be the most important novel that Jonathan Lethem has ever attempted, or the most complex. It is a sarcastic, comic drift through the hipster clichés of an unnamed, ...

The great American novelist Jonathan Lethem’s new book is a tale of a dashing James Bond-esque character navigating the glamorous, scandalous, secret world of high-stakes backgammon. So how did it end ...

Critically-acclaimed author and former MacArthur fellow Jonathan Lethem looks for a certain dynamism in his music, from life-affirming pop and inventive covers to distinctive harmonies. He’ll be ...

Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens (Doubleday) chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century. Lethem’s idealistic iconoclasts believed in civil ...

For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999’s Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette’s syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he’d already written ...

Lethem (Brooklyn Crime Novel) offers a revelatory career-spanning collection of 30 fantastical and speculative stories, all but 11 of which have appeared in previous volumes. Among the ...

It is conventional wisdom that Jonathan Lethem is a Brooklyn author — or was one, until the publication of Dissident Gardens. His most famous novels, after all — Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of ...

Authors Jonathan Lethem and John Jeremiah Sullivan share the spotlight at this installment of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Lethem's works in fiction have drawn comparisons to the ...

His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades. By Leo Robson In “Brooklyn Crime Novel,” the veteran author transports readers to a conflicted time in the ...