Raven + 1Shadow Ticket, in addition to being extremely fun and almost indecently readable, is also replete with edges left conspicuously unsanded ... In the ease with which he wields genre and technique to make good on the countervailing populisms he’s been expressing for decades, the Pynchon of Shadow Ticket—inviting, avuncular, and confidently economical, though no less footloose—has much to teach us about what the larger project has always been.
