"A permeating paranoia. Profound absurdity. Conspiracy and terrorism. Technological alienation. Violence bubbling, ready to boil. This has long been the stuff of Don DeLillo’s masterly fiction. It’s now the air we breathe. For nearly 50 years and across 17 novels, among them classics like 'White Noise,' 'Libra' and 'Underworld,' DeLillo, who is 83, has summoned the darker currents of the American experience with maximum precision and uncanny imagination. His enduring sensitivity to the zeitgeist is such that words like 'prophetic' and 'oracular' figure frequently in discussion of his work. They will very likely figure again in regards to his new novel, 'The Silence,' in which a mysterious event on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 causes screens everywhere to go blank. ..."
2010 October: Pafko at the Wall, 2012 May: Underworld , 2012 July: The Body Artist, 2013 September: White Noise, 2013 November: The Art of Fiction No. 135, 2014 July: Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun, 2014 October: Falling Man (2007), 2016 December: Libra (1988)
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