A preview from our Winter 2025 issue, available online today: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket. The novel “shines a spotlight on certain political aspects of Pynchon’s earlier books that sometimes get overlooked,” Beck writes. It is “a pessimistic and even angry novel,” one that finds “less motivation to be curious when you can sense that the world you live in has already gone over the edge.” Follow the link in our bio to read more. 📷 Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York / Los Angeles.