Books
February, 1985
Things are looking up for Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (Viking). His earlier work (seven novels, most notably The Names and Ratner's Star) was erratic--sometimes stand-back brilliant, sometimes turgid or just unintelligible. White Noise is terrific. It concerns Jack Gladney, a Hitler-studies professor (the book takes place in an unspecified near future) whose small-town existence keeps getting polluted by rabid technologies. His family is chased from its home by a chemical spill known as T...
