New Statesman mag takes Pynchon's name in vein (sic) but.........

[Mark Kohut]

Quichotte – Salman Rushdie

“Like his hero Thomas Pynchon, Rushdie is offering his own sensibility and,
more broadly, ‘the picaresque tradition’ as the cure to the ills he
diagnoses. Where Pynchon is the pun-loving anti-utilitarian confronting war
machines and corporate greed, Rushdie is the cold-eyed rationalist who
views levity as the greatest product of seeing things as they truly are.
Yet turn to any page and one finds not real wit or warmth but frail
reflections on late-capitalist detritus.” Read Leo Robson’s review in full.
<https://www.newstatesman.com/salman-rushdie-quichotte-review>