Don DeLillo has written about America in the 20th century so acutely and capaciously that he’s become a fixed star in our literary firmament. His novels — think “Underworld,” “White Noise” and “Libra” ...
CHICAGO — Don DeLillo, one of the world’s most celebrated novelists, sits at the end of two long folding tables that have been pushed together. He is listening, pressing his right hand against his ...
For 45 years, Don DeLillo has been our high priest of the American apocalypse, having tackled just about every man-made disaster: nukes in End Zone, nukes and garbage in Underworld, toxic pollution in ...
This, of course, is not really Don DeLillo, who is 79 years old, writes on a typewriter, and clearly does not give a shit about social media. A spokesperson for Scribner, DeLillo’s publisher, ...
Nearly half a century before “Heated Rivalry” skated its way to screens, a budding literary talent pseudonymously published some sporty smut of his own. By Alexandra Alter With the famously private ...
Don DeLillo’s “Zero K” is science fiction of the kind that takes place five minutes from now and a novel of ideas that’s deeply emotional. Reading it made me feel like I was watching Andrei ...
This week, Don DeLillo will accept the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters -- its lifetime achievement award -- at the National Book Awards. But that ...
History always happens twice. First it happens when it happens, when bombs obliterate crowded corners at noon or bullets bite flesh or planes ram buildings, when any one of a rotating series of ...
The Book Club is reading Dana Spiotta’s “Stone Arabia’ in August. Come to a live online chat with the author at 2 P.M. on August 25th. I came up with Mamie Van Doren. And I knew that is not who I was ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Joshua Cohen THE SILENCE By Don DeLillo A.D., for me, has come to mean not anno Domini but anno ...