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DeLillo’s uneasy overview

Writing in his signature intense, compact style, Don DeLillo has always seen the spaces we ignore, the interstitials that knit together our anxious, fractious modern world. Now the celebrated author, whom New York Times Book Review critic Liesl Schillinger calls “a master transmitter of American zeitgeist anxiety, even in times when there was less to be anxious about,” is back with his latest. The Angel Esmeralda, a collection of nine stories written over 32 years, reveals how DeLillo stays current — cataloging what Schillinger calls “the enduring adaptability of human insecurities.” See Word

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