Don DeLillo

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    A Mexican teen comedy of sexual awakening is the richest film of 2006. Plus: Don DeLillo's first film and an unsavory JT Leroy.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 9, 2006

  • Writing in the Margins

    Our author learns: Don't mess with Texas! Feel the Lone Star love, and grab this last-minute shopping list of the year's best comics and graphic novels for all the mods, rockers, punks and Texans on your list.
    By Scott Thill December 23, 2004

  • They're rich because they're good

    Readers respond to recent articles on hating the Yankees, pet cars and Don DeLillo.
    October 29, 2001

  • Don DeLillo

    America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives.
    By Jeffrey MacIntyre October 23, 2001

  • Sentenced to death

    Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket?
    By Laura Miller August 16, 2001

  • Body and soul

    Don DeLillo's "The Body Artist" focuses on the inner life of an artist after she suffers the loss of her husband.
    Read by Laurie Anderson March 5, 2001

  • "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo

    A grieving woman, an almost empty house and a very strange visitor add up to a metaphysical puzzle by this American master.
    By Maria Russo February 21, 2001

  • Going Up

    "The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel
    By Laura Miller January 12, 1999

  • Terrible swift sword

    David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
    By David Bowman December 3, 1998

  • Monica Lewinsky beat me out of an internship

    The man who could have saved the dignity of the White House offers Practical Advice From a Guy Who Could Have Saved the Dignity of the Executive Office
    By Rolf Potts October 23, 1998

  • Would you buy a new car from this novelist?

    An Oldsmobile ad on the New York Times Web site links to a "special supplement" that showcases a collection of articles and reviews by high-brow writers and raises questions about using the same "content" for editorial and advertising purposes.
    By James Poniewozik July 22, 1998

  • Cormac McCarthy: Sentimental journey

    Vince Passaro on Cormac McCarthy's 'Cities of the Plain,' conclusion to the trilogy of novels that began with National Book Award winner, 'All the Pretty Horses'
    By Vince Passaro May 20, 1998

  • The worst books of 1997

    Salon Magazine's book critics survey the worst and most overrated books of 1997
    By Dwight Garner December 24, 1997

  • WITH THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, CHARLES FRAZIER WINS -- AND SO DO BOOK COLLECTORS.
    BY DWIGHT GARNER November 20, 1997

  • One nation, undercover

    "Underworld," Don DeLillo's ambitious attempt at the Great American Novel, prompts one to quote Henry James: "I liked all of it, except the whole thing."
    By Laura Miller September 26, 1997

  • Media Circus: A New Yorker to Di for

    A review of the New Yorker's insta-response Princess Diana issue.
    By James Poniewozik September 9, 1997
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