Don DeLillo

...in 1969, but the original 1968 novel that they've said the first adaptation betrayed. David Cronenberg is planning to take on Don DeLillo's surreal novel Cosmopolis, a perfect cerebral match if ever there was one. Edgy filmmaker Michael...

In this article: Academy Awards, New Moon, Hollywood, Literature, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak, Nick Hornby, Peter Jackson, and Larry McMurtry

...Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon to launch a broadside at a genre he'd named "hysterical realism." While praising...

In this article: Zadie Smith, James Wood, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, David Foster Wallace, Anxiety, Roland Barthes, White Teeth, and Charles Dickens

...but there is no scraping of the literary barrel. Granta's special features a previously unpublished Algren story: alongside work by Don DeLillo and Wole Soyinka, he is in good company, in one of the most incisively edited issues of the...

In this article: Nelson Algren, Simone de Beauvoir, Kurt Vonnegut, Chicago, National Book Award, and American Academy of Arts

...down from the sky; the passerbys faces were ashen and exhausted. Suddenly it occurred to me that I had walked into the pages of a Don DeLillo novel--into a world that had been upended by an Airborne Toxic Event. (DeLillo did eventually write...

In this article: James Randi, Robert Anton Wilson, Salman Rushdie, Martin Gardner, Illuminatus!, and The Crying of Lot 49

...for a novelist is, how do you get in? Do you wait for time to just allow you space and distance? Or do you get in in some other way. Don Delillo did it brilliantly with the "Falling Man," literally, on the first page, the dust has already...

In this article: New York, Colum McCann, The Bronx, Philippe Petit, World Trade Center, and National Book Award

...advertising; explores the cross-pollination between literature and the world of advertising, in which many writers-including Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and James Patterson-worked before publishing their first books; and makes a convincing...

In this article: Cormac McCarthy, E mail, White Noise, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and Kurt Vonnegut

He was still happy to clown around, making outrageous liberal-baiting statements. But, as he also explained to another critic, reading Don DeLillo's Libra had inspired him to try something newer and bigger: "Fuck being a crime novelist when you...

In this article: James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, American Tabloid, Martin Luther King, Heroin, Libra, FBI, CIA, and Howard Hughes

...of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel," Kristiaan Versluys explores fictional portrayals of 9/11. Among the works he probes are Don DeLillo's "Falling Man," Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers," Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely...

In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Falling Man, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Terrorist, and Belgium

Richard Ford has yet to write a novel in which flinty American manhood and the dissolution of community do not mutually refract. And Don DeLillo's career represents a 40-year meditation on the ravages of consumerism - commercial, spiritual,...

In this article: John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Consumerism, Trademark, Random House, and A Son of the Circus

Watching the watchers makes Soccer Saturday worth a bet Thanks to Jeff Stelling, and with a little help from Don DeLillo, football has become the new racing accumulator Soccer Saturday's ringmaster, Jeff Stelling. Photograph: Sky

In this article: Jeff Stelling, Soccer Saturday, Phil Thompson, ITV, Burnley, Chris Kamara, Paul Merson, and JavaScript