I think the idea that writers like Delillo perform a public service by interpreting events like 9/11 is risable. The... [MORE]

stuart munro

May 13, 2007 02:12

"Falling Man" extends the brilliant career of America's foremost novelist. He is the only American white male to have any... [MORE]

kl

May 28, 2007 17:56

Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated) has also written a post 9/11 book that is very good. I will get... [MORE]

Leslie

May 12, 2007 22:20

Why do none of the major paper critics ever mention Paul West 's brilliant "The Immensity of the Here and... [MORE]

Dennis

May 4, 2007 21:02

Dennis's right-on comments about Paul West's The Immensity of the Here and Now, a novel of 9.11raise two points: 1)... [MORE]

Ronald Christ

May 5, 2007 13:33

I moved my family from New Zealand to the US less that 3 weeks before September 11, 2001. I am... [MORE]

Bruce Sheridan

May 4, 2007 13:51

Delillo has always seemed like someone staring very hard at something I can't see. [MORE]

Mick Sherman

May 4, 2007 12:47

DeLillo's two best passages (ok, very subjectively, since I've only read four of his books) are 1. the baseball scene... [MORE]

Bill

May 4, 2007 10:16

The South suffered badly in the Civil War, and its fiction reflects that. I think you will begin to see... [MORE]

BH

May 4, 2007 12:42

With all due respect to Adam Kirsch, he needs to leave the library and inhale some fresh air. Spetember 11... [MORE]

Michael Anderson

May 4, 2007 09:36

I may be slow but I don't exactly get this piece. Kirsch is ordinarily a very fine writer. But the... [MORE]

Shalom Freedman

May 4, 2007 08:47

In response to trey. I'm unaware why disagreement with the country you live in necessarily means that one must move... [MORE]

middle

May 4, 2007 08:41

Carl Schurz put this more eloquently than I ever could over a century ago. The quote has been misused since...

Ef

May 4, 2007 11:22

Have we heard, read, and seen in film (The Pawnbroker) scenarios of survivor culture shock and survivor guilt? -- at... [MORE]

Frank Joseph Routman

May 3, 2007 10:07

was attacked for once. the question that was never dealt with was "why do they hate us"... and the answer... [MORE]

michael roloff

May 2, 2007 10:02

america is certainly not innocent, of this we can agree. but it is the still the best country to live... [MORE]

trey

May 2, 2007 23:58

America is certainly the best country to live in? Only an American could say that without feeling any need to... [MORE]

sharon

May 5, 2007 17:26