Articles tagged "jonathan lethem"

Comics Review

Omega: The Unkown

by Bob Proehl

[10.Feb.09] :. Full of explicit weirdness, Omega: The Unknown is the loving work of professional fan fiction.

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After the Silicon Rush

by Patrick Schabe

[13.Nov.07] :. In the 20-plus years since cyberpunk threw down a gauntlet to science fiction and stormed the cultural gates, its vision has been praised, criticized, absorbed, and integrated into the mainstream. Does post-cyberpunk have something new to offer?

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A lighter turn for a writer who favors twists

by Geeta Sharma-Jensen [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[12.Apr.07] :. As Jonathan Lethem’s novels go, You Don’t Love Me Yet is, well, pretty tame and usual. It’s not set on a strange planet like his favorite, Girl in Landscape....

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Books Review

You Dont Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

by Chris Barsanti

[12.Mar.07] :. Lethem doesn't push the novel toward much of a plot with any sense of urgency, as though he'd left the manuscript baking in the Los Angeles sun.

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The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

by Christopher Gray

[6.Jun.06] :. As the Eggerses and Safran Foers of the literary hype machine take childlike pranksterdom and surreal folk tales to often dazzling, uncharted heights, Lethem writes from a less ambitious but no less affecting point, imbuing well-worn genres with an almost paralyzing intimacy.

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Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem

by Zachary Houle

[12.Oct.04] :. Sometimes, you realize that the artist who once changed your life is no longer speaking about you in the way you thought they once did.

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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

by Mark Dionne

[11.Sep.03] :. Jonathan Lethem has always been a cerebral writer with a junk-culture heart.

 

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

by Martha Kuhlman

While some of us claim to have a mind-body problem, Lionel Essrog, the anti-hero of [Jonathan Lethem's] 'Motherless Brooklyn' and a sufferer of Tourette's syndrome, has a more fundamental quandary: a mind-mind problem.