To deepen and expand the study of Don DeLillo, we need to acknowledge the role gender plays in his work. Since William Burke's "Football, Literature and Culture"--the first literary criticism on DeLillo--was published in the Southwest Review twenty-five years ago, scholars of DeLillo...

"CORPORATIONS ARE GREAT and appalling things," observes Nick Shay, the hero of Underworld. "They take you and shape you in nearly nothing flat." But in real life these things take time. After almost a year, the corporate shaping of Underworld has only just...

Some underworld figures whose stories will be told when Las Vegas opens its mob museum:Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.Pioneered Las Vegas as America's glamorous gambling capital, opening the lavish Flamingo hotel-casino in 1946. Rubbed out in 1947 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hollywood handsome, he was played by...

Baby-faced author Vikram Chandra, in brown V-neck sweater and sipping a skimmed latte, does not immediately strike you as a guy who has spent most of the past decade hanging out with gangsters.Nor does the soft-spoken novelist swagger like someone who has become an international...

In the following review, Tanner faults DeLillo for neglecting the aesthetics of narrative art in favor of those of sensationalistic journalism in Underworld.

In the following essay, Helyer analyzes the meaning of the “waste” metaphor in Underworld in relation to patriarchal ideals of masculine cultural authority.

In the following review, Elie highlights the religious connotations of the language, themes, and imagery of Underworld.