newyorker:

Laureate of Terror: Don DeLillo’s Prophetic Soul

“The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories” (Scribner; $24), surprisingly, is DeLillo’s first collection. In the course of his career, he has published twenty shorter fictions, so there has already been a paring down. A halving, in fact, though the book, to my eye and ear, is a faithful alternation between first- and second-echelon work—between easy-chair DeLillo and hard-chair DeLillo.

- Martin Amis reviews “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories” and explains what we really mean when we say we love an author’s work: http://nyr.kr/tz65Ql