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The Crying of Lot 49 is often hawked by Pynchon fans, a tad optimistically perhaps, as the gateway drug to Pynchon's peculiar universe.

'Literature is mostly about having sex and not about having children.' So said the British novelist and literary critic David Lodge ...

From 2008 to 2016, Edward Wong reported on China for the New York Times, heading up its Beijing bureau. He published his first book last year ...

Welcome to the cultural phenomenon of romantasy -- a newly mainstreamed trend fueled by TikTok, or rather BookTok.