Edward Norton tries too hard in an atmospheric but overambitious detective thriller
November 2019
Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody'
Over tea and tequila, the actor and the rock star discuss making Motherless Brooklyn, the dark forces behind Trump – and why Yorke was too messed up to score Fight Club
May 2019
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review – are you a Rabbit or a Bear?
A road trip through the California desert becomes a thumping political allegory for a divided nation
April 2019
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review – high-wire allegory
A student goes missing in the Californian wilderness during Trump’s inauguration…
February 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 genre-twisting novels
From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing tales
March 2018
Firefighter dies after set of new Edward Norton film catches fire in Harlem
Michael R Davidson, 37, killed at Harlem apartment building where Jonathan Lethem adaptation starring Willis, Dafoe and Baldwin was being filmed
February 2017
The Blot by Jonathan Lethem review – high-stakes backgammon and brain surgery
A professional gambler’s journey from board games to the operating table dazzles then loses its way
A life in ...
Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is utterly different’
The American novelist on writing horror, how Occupy gave capitalism back its name and the thunderbolt that has hit US politics
The Blot: A Novel review – a gambler out of luck
Jonathan Lethem runs out of moves in this story of a backgammon hustler facing the surgeon’s knife
January 2017
2017 the year ahead
Fiction to look out for in 2017
With hotly tipped new novels from major names including Arundhati Roy and Paul Auster, the year ahead looks set to be a strong one
June 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 New York novels
From Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan, the city has inspired countless stories, all of them sharing one major character – the metropolis itself
September 2015
Brooklyn Book Festival 2015 preview: a gathering of writers and stylish tote bags
The book festival, which takes place on Sunday and is free, boasts a spread of big literary names, some of whom can even still afford to live in Brooklyn themselves
July 2015
Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem review – more
reality-bending fables from the master
Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem review – all the lonely people
May 2014
Books blog
Superheroes conquer the literary novel
David Barnett: Prose incarnations of the comic-book staples are not new, but they are gaining new potency in serious fiction
February 2014
The Guardian Books podcast
Jonathan Lethem and Lynne Segal: radical writing – books podcast
The history of the American left and the confusions and contradictions of contemporary attitudes to ageing come under radical scrutiny
January 2014
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup: Those Wild Wyndhams, Dissident Gardens, and Imagination and a Pile of Junk
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem – review
February 2013
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review
The great critic James Wood turns his gaze on the likes of Paul Auster and WG Sebald in a fascinating collection of essays, writes Andrew Anthony
