Everything That Rises Must Converge in Delillo's Post-9/11 Novel

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In 2003, after the beginning of the Iraq War, Don DeLillo suggested that the 21st century, which began on Sept. 11, 2001, and not at the turn of the millennium, would be called the Age of Terror.

It's likely that future historians will decide on some other moniker for our present epoch, but it almost certainly won't be the American Century. While the late '90s were "shaped by the belief in the omnipresent power of money," DeLillo argued, we have now "entered a new age of fear and uncertainty."

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Everything That Rises Must Converge in Delillo's Post-9/11 Novel

His latest of three novels to be published after 9/11, "Point Omega," set in the late summer and early fall of 2006, is framed by a prelude and epilogue in which an anonymous, middle-aged man views a conceptual video work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York by the Scottish artist Dou...

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