A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
Lethem’s prodigious imagination and clever wordplay permeate each story, building both reality-adjacent and surrealist worlds with a playful wink.
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A winner for readers seeking a fast-moving romp through sci-fi premises and futuristic settings without a lot of violence.
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Comprehensive and compelling, a career retrospective befitting one of our most perceptive and agile contemporary writers ... Both an introduction, for those unfamiliar with Lethem’s work, and a summation, the kind of tome one could imagine being taught in a university classroom ... One must admire Lethem’s near-Pynchonian turn: recede, defer, and allow the work to speak for itself ... Art really isn’t something to be mastered, of course, but Lethem’s dedication to the short story has paid dividends ... For my money, Lethem is at his most delightful when he’s vaguely hallucinatory ... Lethem excels at leaving the reader wondering ... Much of his best fiction holds up a dark mirror to the modern age.
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