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Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973
From the Archives

Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
June 1, 1978
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
From the Archives

State and Vine

On Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Richard Powers
July 1, 1991
Film

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
December 15, 2025
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995
Books

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025
Books

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical literary experiment
Clare Carlisle
March 16, 2026
Ideas

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right
Dana Stevens
March 10, 2026
Books

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer
March 16, 2026
Black-and-white photo of James Schuyler in the hallway of the Chelsea Hotel, New York City, 1988
Books

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
March 16, 2026