Editing Jonathan Franzen (section)

=== ''A Key to All Mythologies'' ===
On November 13, 2020, Franzen's publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced the publication of Franzen's new novel, ''[[Crossroads (novel)|Crossroads]]'', the first volume in a trilogy titled ''A Key to All Mythologies.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Franzen Novel Set for October 2021|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/84894-new-franzen-novel-set-for-next-october.html|access-date=November 15, 2020|website=www.publishersweekly.com|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930045816/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/84894-new-franzen-novel-set-for-next-october.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|url=https://www.facebook.com/fsgbooks/posts/10158203505803052 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/54710083051/10158203505803052 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |url-access=limited|access-date=November 15, 2020|website=www.facebook.com|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=November 13, 2020|title=Briefs: New Books From Franzen and Bridges, Chronicle Expands In Games and Toys|url=https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2020/11/briefs-new-books-from-franzen-and-bridges-chronicle-expands-in-games-and-toys/|access-date=November 15, 2020|website=Publishers Lunch|language=en-US|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113160516/https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2020/11/briefs-new-books-from-franzen-and-bridges-chronicle-expands-in-games-and-toys/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Crossroads'' was published October 5, 2021.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|title=Crossroads: A Novel {{!}} Jonathan Franzen {{!}} Macmillan|url=https://us.macmillan.com/crossroadsanovel/jonathanfranzen/9780374181178|access-date=November 15, 2020|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The novel received mostly favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Positive" rating at the [[review aggregator]] website [[Book Marks]], based on 48 book reviews from mainstream literary critics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Book Marks reviews of Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/crossroads/|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[Literary Hub]]|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930045825/https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/crossroads/}}</ref> ''[[Bookforum]]'' called it Franzen's "finest novel yet," his "greatest and most perfect novel,"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Guan|first=Frank|date=Fall 2021|title=Hell Can Wait|url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/2803/jonathan-franzen-makes-history-again-24609|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[Bookforum]]|language=en-US|archive-date=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907125316/https://www.bookforum.com/print/2803/jonathan-franzen-makes-history-again-24609}}</ref> and [[Dwight Garner]] of the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' said it was "warmer than anything he's yet written, wider in its human sympathies, weightier of image and intellect."<ref name="Garner-2021">{{Cite news|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=September 27, 2021|title=Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads,' a Mellow, '70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/books/review-jonathan-franzen-crossroads.html|access-date=November 3, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103080432/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/books/review-jonathan-franzen-crossroads.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the ''[[The Times Literary Supplement|Times Literary Supplement]]'':<blockquote>''Crossroads'' is largely free from the vices to which Franzen's previous work has been addicted: the self-conscious topicality; the show-off sophistication; the formal heavy-handedness. It retains many of his familiar virtues: the robust characterization; the escalating comedy; the virtuosic command of narrative rhythm.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gordon|first=Edmund|date=October 1, 2021|title=Divorce, Doubt and Doobies|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/crossroads-jonathan-franzen-book-review-edmund-gordon/|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[The Times Literary Supplement]]|language=en-GB|archive-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929204241/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/crossroads-jonathan-franzen-book-review-edmund-gordon/}}</ref></blockquote>Critics especially praised the character of Marion, whom Garner called "one of the glorious characters in recent American fiction."<ref name="Garner-2021" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Alam|first=Rumaan|date=October 18, 2021|title=Leaps of Faith: Jonathan Franzen's Midwestern Saga|language=|work=[[The Nation]]|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/|access-date=November 3, 2021|issn=0027-8378|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020001530/https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Grady|first=Constance|date=October 5, 2021|title=Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads is an opus on humiliation. It's very good|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/22708681/crossroads-jonathan-franzen-review|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|language=en|archive-date=October 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194841/https://www.vox.com/culture/22708681/crossroads-jonathan-franzen-review}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Somers|first=Erin|date=September 29, 2021|title=Jonathan Franzen sticks with what works—and loses what doesn't—in the excellent Crossroads|url=https://www.avclub.com/jonathan-franzen-sticks-with-what-works-and-loses-what-1847751729|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|language=en-us|archive-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929163337/https://www.avclub.com/jonathan-franzen-sticks-with-what-works-and-loses-what-1847751729}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Friedell|first=Deborah|date=October 21, 2021|title=Sex with Satan|language=en|volume=43|work=[[London Review of Books]]|issue=20|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n20/deborah-friedell/sex-with-satan|access-date=November 3, 2021|issn=0260-9592|archive-date=October 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026042510/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n20/deborah-friedell/sex-with-satan|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rothfeld|first=Becca|date=October 4, 2021|title=Jonathan Franzen's Best Book Yet|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/620176/|url-status=live|access-date=November 3, 2021|website=[[The Atlantic]]|language=en|archive-date=October 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004112229/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/620176/}}</ref>

The novel is about a pastor, his wife, and four children. It's split into two sections called 'Advent' and 'Easter.' Writing for ''[[The Nation]]'', Rumaan Alam says "in ''Crossroads'', every plotline leads to God."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alam |first=Rumaan |date=October 18, 2021 |title=Leaps of Faith: Jonathan Franzen's Midwestern saga |work=[[The Nation]] |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |issn=0027-8378 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020001530/https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jonathan-franzen-crossroads/ |url-status=live }}</ref>