The Body Artist

"There's something about the wind. It strips you of assurances, working into you, continuous, making you feel the hidden thinness of everything around you, all the solid stuff of a hundred undertakings - the barest makeshift flimsy." Grief can do that too. The Body Artist begins with a domestic break......more

A sensual, hyper-real Delillian song. Donnie's poetic prose lilts in sustained focus through ghostly sibilance, sinusoidally evocative and throb-inducing. A brief encounter and a drawn-out epiphany. An instant under a microscope reveals such texture as the merely human eye cannot perceive. The hero of......more

WTH did I read? Okay so I was extremely confused in the beginning because I thought this would be about maybe a divorce and then the woman having to deal with the emotions after. I could not have been more wrong. I was so disturbed while reading this and maybe this just wasn't for me but the main cha......more

This is the third Don DiLillo book that I’ve read. I read White Noise in college, right along with everyone else, and thought it was a truly a modern classic, just like everybody else. Then, in graduate school, I also read Libra in a 500-level literature class called “Post Post Modern Fiction.” I th......more

CRITIQUE: Public and Private Spheres Up to the point of "Underworld", Don Delillo seemed to be simultaneously interested in the public sphere and the private sphere of the participants in the public sphere. When it comes to personal relationships, we see mother and son, brother to brother, husband......more