Critical Essays on Don DeLillo

New and reprinted critical essays and popular press reviews focused on the work of United States novelist Don DeLillo, whose novels portray the influences of mass culture, corporatism, and technology on daily life.

Contents:

• Hugh Ruppersburg and Tim Engles, "Introduction," 1-27.
• Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. “Old Story, Fresh Language” [Review of  Americana ]. 31-33.
• Algren, Nelson. “A Waugh in Shoulder Padding” [Review of  End Zone ]. 34-36.
• O’Hara, J.D. “Your Number Is Up” [Review of  Ratner’s Star ]. 37-38.
• Koch, Stephen. “End Game” [Review of  Players ]. 39-41.
• O’Hara, J.D. “A Pro’s Puckish Prose” [Review of  Amazons ]. 42-44.
• Bosworth, David. “The Fiction of Don DeLillo” [Review of  The Names ]. 45-50.
• Johnson, Diane. “Conspirators” [Review of  White Noise ]. 51-55.
• Will, George F. “Shallow Look at the Mind of an Assassin” [Review of  Libra ]. 56-57.
• Cain, William E. “Making Meaningful Worlds: Self and History in  Libra ” [Review of  Libra ]. 58-69.
• Menand, Louis. “Market Report” [Review of  Mao II ]. 70-75.
• Dirda, Michael. “The Blast Felt Around the World” [Review of  Underworld ]. 76-82.
• Cowart, David. “For Whom Bell Tolls: Don DeLillo’s  Americana .” 83-96.
• LeClair, Thomas. “Deconstructing the Logos: Don DeLillo’s  End Zone .” 97-114.
• Allen, Glen Scott. “The End of Pynchon’s Rainbow: Postmodern Terror and Paranoia in DeLillo’s  Ratner’s Star .” 115-134.
• Osteen, Mark. “Marketing Obsession: The Fascinations of  Running Dog .” 135-56.
• Bryant, Paula. “Discussing the Untellable: Don DeLillo’s  The Names .” 157-70.
• Engles, Tim. “‘Who are you, literally?’: Fantasies of the White Self in Don DeLillo’s  White Noise .” 171-95.
• Wilcox, Leonard. “Baudrillard, DeLillo’s  White Noise , and the end of Heroic Narrative.” 196-212.
• Millard, Bill. “The Fable of the Ants: Myopic Interactions in DeLillo’s  Libra .” 213-28.
• Mott, Christopher M. “ Libra  and the Subject of History.” 229-44.
• Bizzini, Silvia Caporale. “Can the Intellectual Still Speak? The Example of Don DeLillo’s  Mao II .” 245-57.
• Duvall, John N. “Excavating the Underworld of Race and Waste in Cold War History: Baseball, Aesthetics, and Ideology.” 258-81.
• Knight, Peter. “Everything Is Connected:  Underworld ‘s Secret History of Paranoia.” 282-301.
• Saltzman, Arthur. “Awful Symmetries in Don DeLillo’s  Underworld .” 302-16.