Time has done nothing to diminish this writer's casually epigraphic style, his daring narrative choreography nor his sensitivity to the swelling fears of our age. supple and sad and oddly compassionate too his most fully realised work in more than a decadeĭeLillo's spare eloquence and the cosmic depression underlying it makes this emptiest of novels a rich reading experience

his optimism is a welcome gift in this intense and deeply considered bookĪ visionary novel of ideas that remembers even visionary novels are read by living, breathing humansĪs he approaches 80, Don DeLillo is still producing work that channels America's tensions. Simultaneously terrifying yet beautifully told with a real tenderness for the everyday details of life in New York. sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadenceĪ kind of greatest-hits compilation of earlier motifs and gestures Read more of urban life's most perceptive chroniclersĭeLillo's 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being human We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded lifeĭeLillo is one. Both beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth.

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