Volume 48, Number 3 · February 22, 2001
The Hunger Artist
By John Leonard
The Body Artist
by Don DeLillo
Scribner, 124 pp., $22.00
After a Divine Comedy, why not haiku? So The Body Artist is seven hundred pages shorter than Underworld. Don DeLillo deserves a breather. Since Underworld, the best English-language novel of the Nineties, somehow failed to win either a Pulitzer Prize or a National Book Award, he may even deserve a free pass. When I suggested to one of the NBA fiction jurors that maybe her panel had been blitzed on dopamine, she insisted that all five of them felt Underworld could have been cut by at least two hundred pages, somehow.
Review, 4249 words
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