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They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world - from which we are increasingly dissociated - as an animating force in their lives

What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air

form and imagery exhibit a remarkable freshness

-Steven Pearlstein

Don Delillo: Mao II: Don Delillo (Picador Collection, 30) [2022] paperback ZFTRA from the Big Bang toWinner of the PEN Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his