Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Fortress of Solitude,” among others, is no stranger to artsy environs, even when they border the atypical. In Ann Arbor this week, ...

“I grew up in a house full of paintings and books,” Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture (2024). “My father made the paintings and my mother handed ...

Whitehead, who like Lethem is the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, said his forthcoming novel, "Sag Harbor," took three and a half years to write, and is now more real to him than the ...

"I idealize the transmission of intellectual property materials," Jonathan Lethem says (explaining why his novels read like mashups of cultural references, borrowings and outright plagiarisms). "Maybe ...

The American novelist on writing horror, how Occupy gave capitalism back its name and the thunderbolt that has hit US politics The Blot, Jonathan Lethem’s noirish new novel, centres on Alexander Bruno ...

Jonathan Lethem is a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s, so it’s not by chance that his new novel, The Feral Detective, begins where Chandler’s The Big Sleep leaves off, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, ...

“I’ll drive,” Jonathan Lethem says, holding out his hand for my car keys. “This is going to be important, so you’ll want to take notes.” It’s a good thing he tells me that because nothing about the ...

Jonathan Lethem wants to debunk any rumors that he aspires to be a rock star. “Nobody’s lives would be improved by that,” says the Brooklyn-born-and-based author (Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of ...

“I want to be in the audience,” Jonathan Lethem said into a microphone at Vroman’s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon. He slipped off stage and into a front row seat to watch musicians Cindy Lee Berryhill ...