This week, Don DeLillo will accept the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters -- its lifetime achievement award -- at the National Book Awards. But that ...

In an isolated desert facility, individuals - some terminally ill, others simply eager for a new start - gather to be cryogenically frozen in the hope of awakening to health and a better a world. The ...

The World's Shortest St. Patrick's Footrace, the Second Ever Zero-K, will return to Hot Springs on March 18 as part of the two-day revelry surrounding the First Ever 20th Annual World's Shortest St.

"All plots tend to move deathward," Jack Gladney says in White Noise, Don DeLillo's 1985 breakout novel, and his first stone-cold masterpiece. It's an idea DeLillo revisited in his follow-up, 1988's ...

A rather strange thing accompanied the publication of Zero K, Don DeLillo's latest novel: The author himself. He has (somewhat inaccurately) been branded "reclusive" or "media-shy" throughout the ...

Thirty years ago, Don DeLillo reached star status with his novel “White Noise,” easily one of the most acute American meditations on death of the postwar era. With its famous “airborne toxic event,” ...

I played the early stages of ` `Zero-K '', a simulation strategy game where you produce units and issue instructions in a battlefield where time progresses in real time, and I tried issuing movement ...

In ‘Zero k,’ the narrator, a rootless man in his thirties named Jeffrey Lockhart, has a long talk with someone he calls the Monk, who may or may not be an actual monk. Jeffrey has a habit of assigning ...

Zero-K is a game where teams of robots fight for metal, energy and dominance. They use any strategy, tactic or gimmick known to machine. Zero-K is a game for players by players, and it runs natively ...

Don DeLillo's much-anticipated new novel "Zero K" is out and Day 6 books columnist Becky Toyne says, yes you should read it. "It's amazing that he's 79 years old and he's written a book like this," ...

DEATH. Hard to avoid. Or as Don DeLillo puts its in his new book Zero K, it’s “a tough habit to break’’. Unless it becomes just another commodity that can be bought and sold. In Zero K, DeLillo ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s poignant when a great novelist in old age writes explicitly about death, as Don DeLillo does in his beguiling ...