Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936 ) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Sourced The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the...
Over the past twenty-five years, Don DeLillo has established himself as one of the most important contemporary American novelists. Prolific and wide-ranging, he has published ten major novels that rework a variety of narrative genres, creating...
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 means of defending against the stresses in his life....
Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives in New York...
In keeping with the tradition of the Twayne series, Keesey's study of Don DeLillo provides the reader with a solid and clear interpretation of DeLillo's major works. Keesey's approach to DeLillo rightly emphasizes the themes of consumerism, media culture, and language. For Keesey, the...
Northeastern University savante Cecelia Tichi reviews Don DeLillo's "Libra" in the October Boston Review, and it is the very model of the modern book review . . . DeLillo is encouraged to return to novels and, en passant, Tom Wolfe to get back to...
Women of New York emit a mighty mass moan as George Clooney arrives at the Ziegfeld for the premiere of Michael Clayton, his new film about a corporate law firm in New York. (And pssst: It’s good!) Also present: his never-aging co-star Tilda Swinton, who’s...
FALLING MANBy Don DeLillo Scribner, 256 pages, $26 Don DeLillo already owned the Twin Towers—in 1997, he chose for the cover of Underworld a haunting Kertesz photograph of the World Trade Center looming in the murk, disappearing up into cloud, a soaring pigeon standing in...
In the following essay, Maltby identifies Romantic qualities of the “visionary moment” in White Noise, The Names, and Libra, comparing those qualities to the critical consensus that characterizes DeLillo's works as quintessentially postmodern writing.
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 “distorted” responses to the texts.
In the following essay, McClure examines novelist Don DeLillo's adaptation of popular novels of different genres, including science fiction, espionage, and occult adventures.
