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Jonathan Lethem

John Lethem is the author of seven novels, including You Don’t Love Me Yet, a book of essays, The Disappointment Artist, and the short-story collection, Men and Cartoons. His eighth novel, Chronic City, was published in October 2009.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 2017: Shadowbahn

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem on why Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn is the best book of a year to come.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Proximity People

Jonathan Lethem

‘People who unfriend their friends while friending their unfriends. People who do not acknowledge the person. Persons who are not personal.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

J.G. Ballard

Various Contributors

‘The warmest companion with the coldest vision of where Humanity might head.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Portrait of My Father

Jonathan Lethem

‘I wasn’t interested in childhood, I wanted to hang out with these guys.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104 padlock

Two or Three Things I Dunno About Cassavetes

Jonathan Lethem

‘Writing about Cassavetes feels like vocalese: putting lyrics to passages of jazz improvisation.’

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