Books

Ross Macdonald’s work with setting and environmental themes in noir works like The Underground Man is underappreciated.

In Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon comes full circle—and then some.

Here are works by authors on and of the West—including Archive of Desire, The High Heaven, and Crawl—that we’re excited to see published this month.

McNamara at War, a new biography of Robert McNamara, reexamines his culpability in Vietnam.