Reviews
Friday, November 11 2011
'The Ecstasy of Influence': Lethem and his WordHoard
Jonathan Lethem invites us to the ecstasy of intertextuality, to the intertwining of thousands of words with our selves. This guy is a great writer -- and a great reader.
Tuesday, December 14 2010
'They Live': A Polemic Ripe with Ambiguities
John Carpenter’s They Live is “probably the stupidest film ever to take ideology as its explicit subject”, at least according to author Jonathan Lethem. He’s probably right, but that doesn’t meant that the film’s coded messages are as black and white as…well, the film’s diegetic coded messages
Monday, November 9 2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Alas this is a meandering and fairly plotless book, one that is as bewildering as it is baffling.
Tuesday, February 10 2009
Omega: The Unkown
Full of explicit weirdness, Omega: The Unknown is the loving work of professional fan fiction.
Monday, March 12 2007
You Dont Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
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.
Blogs
Thursday, March 18 2010
Re: Reading Chronic City
A second take on the most recent novel by Jonathan Lethem, which was named a New York Times Best Book for 2009.
News
Thursday, February 24 2011
A sunny move for New Yorker Jonathan Lethem
CLAREMONT, Calif. — On a typical winter day, the Bard of Brooklyn's Boerum Hill steps out onto the sidewalk to go to work. He wears…
Thursday, April 12 2007
A lighter turn for a writer who favors twists
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…
