FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Don delillo - The Untold Story

5 great 9/11 novels grapple with grief, trauma and the ‘American dream’

For 25 years, stories told about the 9/11 terror attacks have grappled with questions of truth, reality and bearing witness to trauma.

The Conversation · Sep 9

‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work

When Rivers received a surprise letter from DeLillo, it encouraged him to set the author’s one-act play in an adult-free, postapocalyptic world

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16

When I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia

Sorting migrants into good and bad is a lot easier than affording people human rights, dignity and freedom

The Guardian - AU · Apr 17

‘Morocco made us innocent’: the many selves of Robert Dessaix

In an interview with The Paris Review, novelist Don DeLillo said, “I’m completely willing to let language press meaning upon me”. That’s not to say the sound of a sentence should be given priority over its meaning, but that meaning finds its full expression – is discovered – in the…

The Conversation · Apr 14, 2025

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is moving, witty and achingly real

I was immediately struck by the title of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection of 12 short stories, Show Don’t Tell. That’s because it’s also the name of a narrative technique that allows readers to experience a story through the characters’ actions, words, thoughts and feelings, rather than the author’s explanations. It…

The Conversation · Feb 26, 2025

Leave the World Behind author Rumaan Alam: ‘The authors I’ve read the most are like my own private university’

As the ‘Leave the World Behind’ author releases his second novel, ‘Entitlement’, he reveals the book that first obsessed him, which writers make up his ‘own private university’, and why he loves reading in the summer

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2024

Do you ever get the feeling that we’re living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

‘End of the world vibes’: why culture can’t stop thinking about apocalypse

Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey contemplates the books and films that turn our fears into entertainment, and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the last

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2024

‘It splintered our sense of reality’: how JFK’s assassination spawned 60 years of conspiracy theories

The murder of the US president left millions convinced their government lied and covered up. Decades on, it continues to twist the truth about everything from Covid to G5 to Trump’s defeat at the polls

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2023

The music of Greta Gerwig’s films, from Lady Bird to Barbie

Here’s a look back at some of her most notable musical moments ahead of Barbie-fever well and truly landing

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023