Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WME brokered the deal on behalf of Lethem and the novel. Stewart Brookman of Hansen, Jacobson negotiated on behalf of Kroll & Co.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a classification at once mindless and perceptive. As the Jonathans sailed to black-tie literary fame, a different world was ...

The energy coursing through Jonathan Lethem’s “Brooklyn Crime Novel” is the wild dynamism of youth, unfettered and unleashed daily on the streets of a now-vanished part of New York. “See all the ...

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“I’ll drive,” Jonathan Lethem says, holding out his hand for my car keys. “This is going to be important, so you’ll want to take notes.” It’s a good thing he tells me that because nothing about the ...

Jonathan Lethem has not necessarily written the first great novel of the Trump era, but he’s arguably written the first great novel about the Trump era, disguised as a rollicking detective story.

Even a casual reader is probably worn down with dystopia fatigue these days: young adult and literary-fiction shelves are now so stuffed with tales of humanity’s imminent doom that it can feel like ...

“Some say the world will end in fire,” Robert Frost wrote, “Some say in ice.” But in this era of terrifying dystopias, Jonathan Lethem imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse: no pandemic laying waste ...

The Jonathans! Suddenly it seems like a long time ago. They arrived between 1995 and 2005, novelists tasked with relieving the graying Roth and Updike as our frontline reporters from the psyche of the ...

Critically-acclaimed author and former MacArthur fellow Jonathan Lethem looks for a certain dynamism in his music, from life-affirming pop and inventive covers to distinctive harmonies. He’ll be ...