Don DeLillo Summary

Don DeLillo writes novels that are loose-knit fabrications of the tensions, preoccupations, and manias of modern America. His books are usually shaped around a central character whose behavior is a me... Read more

Critical Essay by Celia Betsky Terrorism, one always assumed, springs from perverted idealism or protest overstepping rational bounds, and explodes under intolerable political pressures or its own he... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Oriard While Thoreau was able to shape his months on Walden Pond into an instructive lesson for his future life, and into a ritual rebirth as critics have named it, DeLillo&... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas Leclair Plenitude and excess distinguish much of our best fiction: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Coover's The Public Burning, Gaddis's JR, McElroy&... Read more

Critical Essay by J. D. O'hara Author of two fine novels, Americana and Great Jones Street, and one dazzling novel, End Zone, Don DeLillo [in Ratner's Star] writes the American version ... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Nadeau [Nadeau is concerned with the linkage between revolutionary advances in physics in the twentieth century that have significantly altered the "scientific"... Read more

In the following essay, Moraru explores the ways DeLillo's novels thematize the contemporary production and reception of narrative art, focusing on readers' “negative” or &... Read more

In the following essay, McClure examines novelist Don DeLillo's adaptation of popular novels of different genres, including science fiction, espionage, and occult adventures. Don DeLillo cra... Read more