Cosmopolis , by Don DeLillo. Scribner, 209 pages, $25.
Soon after Sept. 11, editors began phoning novelists to commission essays, in the hope that literary writers could offer a better, deeper response to the attacks than mere journalists could. Don DeLillo’s name turned up at the top of everyone’s wish list. That’s how we think Read More
The Body Artist , by Don DeLillo. Scribner, 129 pages, $22.
In what’s becoming a signature of Don DeLillo’s fiction, The Body Artist begins with a tour de force that the remainder of the book can’t quite live up to. ( Underworld , an entirely different sort of book, has the same structural quirk.) The Read More
The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations , by Larry Tye. Crown Books, 320 pages, $27.50.
A publicist I know once compared flackery to tying fishing flies-a delicate, ingenious art charged at every stage with suspense: Will they bite? Public relations also resembles fly fishing in that Read More
Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age , by Esther Dyson. Broadway Books, 307 pages, $25.
If living in the digital future is anything like reading Esther Dyson’s book about it, I don’t think I’ll be able to stay awake for the experience. Ms. Dyson owns a company, Edventure Holdings Read More
