Highlights from the Archives
One by One, Narratives Reflecting Life’s Mosaic
The two most haunting stories in the volume — “Lélé” by Edwidge Danticat and “Donal Webster” by Colm Toibin — unfold, like elaborate origami flowers, into complex portraits with the emotional density and historical depth of field of a novel.
January 8, 2008booksReview
With the Band
In Jonathan Lethem’s novel, an indie group is on the cusp of its first big hit.
March 18, 2007booksReviewUntangling the Knots Of a Brooklyn Boyhood
When Jonathan Lethem was growing up on Dean Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, one of the few white faces in a black and Hispanic sea, he was constantly being grabbed and frisked for his pocket change or bus pass by the neighborhood kids, he recalled the other day. It was the 1970's, before great waves of middle-class homesteaders cascaded through the leafy streets, buying and renovating historic brownstones.
September 16, 2003artsNewsWhite Kid, In a Black World
Jonathan Lethem's dazzling but fundamentally flawed new novel, ''The Fortress of Solitude,'' is at once wildly ambitious and quietly intimate. It aspires to the social range and reach of John Updike's Rabbit novels and Michael Chabon's 2000 novel, ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,'' but it also resonates with the personal, confessional tone of ''Catcher in the Rye.''
September 16, 2003artsNewsWhat Makes Him Tic?
Judging by the energetic catholicity of his literary appropriations -- the hard-boiled novel, science fiction, westerns and the academic novel -- Jonathan Lethem appears to be both a scholar and a wide-eyed fan of any and all genre fiction. Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can.
October 17, 1999artsReviewARTICLES ABOUT JONATHAN LETHEM
'Fortress of Solitude' Musical to Open in Dallas
Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem, the show will play at the Dallas Theater Center before coming to the Public Theater in New York.
March 04, 2013, Monday
Memories Can’t Wait
Jonathan Lethem’s monograph on the 1979 Talking Heads album.
June 3, 2012, SundayJonathan Lethem on Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’
Jonathan Lethem’s monograph on the 1979 Talking Heads album.
June 03, 2012, SundayCultural Heavyweights Let Public Library Know They Don't Like Planned Revamp
The signers of the letter protesting the New York Public Library's plan include Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Lethem and Art Spiegelman.
May 09, 2012, Wednesday
The Voices in Philip K. Dick’s Head
In his later years, Philip K. Dick’s hallucinatory experiences overlapped with the concerns of his science fiction.
December 18, 2011, SundayThe Exegesis of Philip K. Dick — Edited by Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem and Erik Davis — Book Review
In his later years, Philip K. Dick’s hallucinatory experiences overlapped with the concerns of his science fiction.
December 18, 2011, Sunday
Enthusiasms
This collection presents Jonathan Lethem as a reader and writer, but also showcases his nonliterary interests.
November 27, 2011, SundayThe Ecstasy of Influence — Nonfictions, Etc — By Jonathan Lethem — Book Review
This collection presents Jonathan Lethem as a reader and writer, but also showcases his nonliterary interests.
November 27, 2011, Sunday
Creating a Pantheon of Beloved Underdogs
In “The Ecstasy of Influence,” Jonathan Lethem creates his own subversive pantheon that includes Marvel comic books and misfit writers.
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