Don DeLillo: the physics of language

Pt. 1. "For me the crux of the whole matter is language" : Football and Unsaglichkeit: End zone

Pharmaceutical Philomela: Great Jones Street

Mortal stakes: Players

The naive and sentimental reader: Running dog. Pt. 2. "Before everything there's language" : Timor mortis conturbat me: White noise

Convergence of the twain: Libra

"Our only language is Beirut": Mao II. Pt. 3. "The word beyond speech": For whom the bell tolls: Americana

"More advanced the deeper we dig": Ratner's Star

"The deepest being": language in The names

"The physics of language": Underworld

DeLillolalia: from Underworld to The body artist

DeLillo after 9/11: Cosmopolis.