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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What drew you to Portis? His incredible sense of humor and play on the page. You read someone and you feel like they're having so much fun! His lack of pretension, his dialogue. And the way there's ...

Following a side trip to Los Angeles indie-rock land in You Don’t Love Me Yet, novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to the territory that has proved particularly fruitful for him this past decade — his ...

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 ...

Chronic City (Doubleday) Jonathan Lethem began his career with Philip K. Dick-inspired science fiction, then he turned to writing the more realistic books that brought him to prominence. Here, we ...