Contributor
Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His most recent novel is The Arrest.
David Shapiro Makes Memories Into Objects
Jonathan Lethem
Essays
Four Paintings by Raymond Pettibon
Jonathan Lethem
Essays
Postmodernism As Liberty Valance: Notes on an Execution
Jonathan Lethem
Essays
The American Vicarious
Jonathan Lethem
Interviews
An Interview with Paul Auster
Jonathan Lethem
Essays
Dickens: Greatest Animal Novelist of All Time?
Jonathan Lethem
Four Paintings by Raymond Pettibon
Jonathan Lethem
Mar 1 2013
Postmodernism As Liberty Valance: Notes on an Execution
Jonathan Lethem
Oct 1 2011
(1) Spoiler alert. John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an allegorical western that I am now going to totally pretzel into an allegory for something else entirely. ...The American Vicarious
Jonathan Lethem
Jun 1 2009
1. Halfway through Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West’s eponymous protagonist blurts out: Perhaps I can make you understand. Let’s start from the beginning. A man is ...An Interview with Paul Auster
Jonathan Lethem
Feb 1 2005
Paul Auster began as a poet, essayist, anthologist and translator, but since City of Glass (1985) he’s been recognized above all for being one of our most spare, lucid and ...Dickens: Greatest Animal Novelist of All Time?
Jonathan Lethem
Mar 1 2003
I have a suggestion: Forget London. Forget, for now, the nineteenth century, forget the whole assertion that the value of the “late” or “mature,” Dickens—a construction whose ...
