Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

By Zachary Houle

Alas this is a meandering and fairly plotless book, one that is as bewildering as it is baffling. [9 November 2009]

Omega: The Unkown

By Bob Proehl

Full of explicit weirdness, Omega: The Unknown is the loving work of professional fan fiction. [10 February 2009]

You Dont Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

By Chris Barsanti

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. [12 March 2007]

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

By Christopher Gray

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. [6 June 2006]

Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem

By Zachary Houle

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. [12 October 2004]

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

By Mark Dionne

Jonathan Lethem has always been a cerebral writer with a junk-culture heart. [11 September 2003]

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. [1 January 1995]

A lighter turn for a writer who favors twists [12 April 2007]