DeLillo's insight into the impact of money on every aspect of culture--from art to real estate to politics to time itself--is stunning.

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. "Falling Man" is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America.

In Mao II, Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist....

Spanning 50 years, this is a story about human relationships and how they affect one another on global and local scales....

DeLillo has written a gloriously fused history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture--our preoccupations and obsessions, our fears, our loves, our lives--and a chance to reexperience it.

Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread".