Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ ˈliːθəm / LEETH-əm[1] born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that …

Sep 23, 2025 · That last story: Oh! Lethem creates characters who finger the worry beads in their pockets unseen, conjuring those same hard realities into stepping stones to move the story …

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of …

Sep 25, 2025 · In thirteen novels so far, he layers and twists genres, embeds homages to his favorite authors, filmmakers and visual artists. His five collections and dozens of uncollected …

Dec 15, 2025 · Jonathan Lethem’s A Different Kind of Tension. Collecting nearly four decades of Jonathan Lethem’s “speculative, dystopian, and often prescient stories,” A Different Kind of …

Jonathan Lethem reviews Kevin Young’s “Bunk,” a new book that traces the American fondness for plagiarists, hoaxes and, yes, fake news. Fifty years after Kavan’s novel was first published,...

Jonathan Lethem ’86 is a MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, published in 1994, mixed elements of …

He picks out five of his favorite noir thrillers, from urban fantasy to Jewish alt-history by way of ‘Vantablack’ noir.

Oct 12, 2023 · Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National …

Jonathan Lethem is the author thirteen novels, including Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude (2009), and Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023). His fifth, Motherless Brooklyn (1999), won the …