Don DeLillo, Zero K.

Can death be eradicated? What language might our deathless selves speak? What purpose would their lives serve? In The Value of the Novel (2015), Peter Boxall argues that the novel form is best equipped to answer such questions: “under an emerging global regime that is almost unreadable to us,” the novel in the twenty-first century “allows us to imagine and to make new worlds, to fashion new forms of accommodation between art and matter, or even to live in a condition of worldlessness.” The tu..