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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 something...

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. Onl...

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Over the years, independent filmmaker Alan Berliner has tried just about every remedy in the world to fall asleep, including chamomile tea, hypnosis, warm milk, white noise, alcohol, aromatherapy, sex, massage, and yoga. Still, he has a hard time sleeping. “I’ll never be a great...

The Cult of the Amateur (Doubleday/Currency, $22.95) is a jeremiad about the baleful effects of the Internet on our culture. Andrew Keen insists that the wiki-wonders of that radically democratized blogger’s paradise known as “Web 2.0” are “undermining truth, souring civic discourse, and belittling expertise,...

In the following essay, Shapiro discusses the textual framework provided in Don DeLillo's White Noise for experiencing fears that are typically obscured in modern life by a complex of social codes and distanced by the prevalence of electronic media.

In the following essay, Salyer explicates the religious dimension of American cultural phenomenon represented in White Noise, contrasting the novel's mythical and mystical elements with those of Leslie Marmon Silko's novels Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead.

In the following essay, Phillips characterizes White Noise as a “postmodern pastoral,” studying the novel's representation of the natural world in general and the rural American landscape in particular.

Discusses the story White Noise, by Don DeLillo. Explores the novel's theme, that death lurks everywhere, especially in the "white noise" of the modern world, specifically in the waves and radiation with which we surround ourselves.

Discusses Don DeLillo's adult contemporary novel White Noise. Provides a brief plot summary and examines DeLillo's use of symbolism and major themes in the novel.