Mention Thomas Pynchon to a group of readers, and you either get heavy groans or the messianic glazed eyes and grin of a True Believer. And it's been that way for about 45 years. Pynchon established ...

Mysteries have often fueled Thomas Pynchon’s plots, so it’s logical that he’s finally found his way to the private-eye novel. “Inherent Vice” is set in Los Angeles in 1970 and stars a diminutive ...

There are many obvious films that flash in the brain while watching “Inherent Vice.” It’s “The Big Sleep,” another film where the impenetrability of the plot in no way lessens the entertainment of ...

Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry “Doc” Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, ...

Slot Inherent Vice in with The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland—the other rock ‘n’ roll Pynchon novels in which unsettling levels and strains of marijuana are inhaled, where the counterculture still has ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Our review of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’ will appear in Sunday’s ...

Thomas Pynchon is legendarily reclusive — so much so that most confirmed pictures of the author were pulled from his 1953 high school yearbook. But fans eager to catch a glimpse of Pynchon can soon ...

Leave it to Thomas Pynchon to send fans down a futile rabbit hole of perceived significance, only for it to be one big joke played on the audience. Paul Thomas Anderson and especially Josh Brolin had ...

Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone and more compose Paul Thomas Anderson's drug haze By Ashley Lee Inherent Vice ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Yep, That Was PynchonA publicist from Penguin has confirmed that the voice on the trailer for ‘Inherent Vice’ does indeed belong to Pynchon.