Don delillo

The US novelist, long preoccupied by the uneasy reality of western society, talks about his latest book, set in a world hit by a tech blackout

"So it's gonna be forever / Or it's gonna go down in flames." -- Taylor Swift“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters.” -- Don Delillo

We invited eight female literary powerhouses, from Michiko Kakutani to Anna Holmes to Roxane Gay, to help us create an updated list of books everyone should read. Each participant made 10 picks. It's a new year, a new Esquire.com. We're looking forward to reading and we hope you are, too.

Don DeLillo

Because of its popularity on college syllabi, most people know Don DeLillo from his book "White Noise."

Jake Nevins writes about Don DeLillo’s novel “The Silence,” from 2020, whose characters are confronted by a global digital disruption that interrupts the beginning of the Super Bowl in the year 2022.

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t […]

Colin Barrett on Mao II by Don DeLillo, the best book of 1991. 'An anguishedly witty book on the bottomless, self-aggrandizing torture of being a writer.'

The following is from Jennifer Egan’s introduction of Don DeLillo at the 2015 National Book Awards, where he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In a…