Substantial review praises the epic sweep and 18th century style of Pynchon's 1997 novel "Mason & Dixon."

Read Scott McLemee's assessment of "Mason & Dixon" a pre-Revolutionary tale viewed through 1960s-colored lenses.

Review of Pynchon's 800-page tome, "Mason & Dixon," takes an unapologetically irreverent tone.

Novelist Rick Moody praises the symbolic language Pynchon uses in his epic tale of the American South, "Mason & Dixon."

Student reviewer at MIT finds that Pynchon's fourth novel, "Vineland," preserves the author's trademark sense of the absurd.

Reviewer Blake de Pastino calls Pynchon's fifth novel, "Mason & Dixon," ambitious, cryptic, and "postmodern beyond belief."