“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there. By Dwight Garner Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...