Both beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo’s best since Underworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth. We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded life

DeLillo is one of urban life’s most perceptive chroniclers

DeLillo’s 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being human

Humanly moving . . . sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadence

A kind of greatest-hits compilation of earlier motifs and gestures

Haunting. . . Simultaneously terrifying yet beautifully told with a real tenderness for the everyday details of life in New York. . . certainly not to be missed

Very moving . . . his optimism is a welcome gift in this intense and deeply considered book

A visionary novel of ideas that remembers even visionary novels are read by living, breathing humans

As he approaches 80, Don DeLillo is still producing work that channels America’s tensions. . . supple and sad and oddly compassionate too; his most fully realised work in more than a decade

DeLillo’s spare eloquence and the cosmic depression underlying it makes this emptiest of novels a rich reading experience

Time has done nothing to diminish this writer’s casually epigraphic style, his daring narrative choreography nor his sensitivity to the swelling fears of our age . . . truly provocative’

[DeLillo’s] most persuasive [novel] since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld . . . Zero K reminds us of Mr. DeLillo’s almost Day-Glo powers as a writer and his understanding of the strange, contorted shapes that eternal human concerns (with mortality and time) can take in the new millennium’

Brilliant in its imaginative scope

Among DeLillo’s finest work . . . DeLillo sneaks a heartbreaking story of a son attempting to reconnect with his father into his thought-provoking novel

Sentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered in life and art: individual genius. Sentence by sentence, DeLillo seduces . . . DeLillo has written a handful of the past half-century’s finest novels. Now, as he approaches 80, he gives us one more, written distinctly for the 21st

A return to full realization for DeLillo. . .Deserves to win old and new readers alike. A marvellous blend of DeLillo’s enormous gifts; his bleak humour and edged insight, the alertness and vitality of his prose, the vast, poetic extrapolations are all evident. So is the visceral quickness and wit in the sentences

As ever, DeLillo explores the depths of an edgy, timely topic, completely resisting cliché, and emerges with something both fresh and universal

The reigning poet of unease, DeLillo has always understood the greatest disquiet — our mortality — and how our sense of it coats the surfaces of day-to-day life with a film, something DeLillo peels back at last in this bravura new novel about cryogenic life extension, family, and the losses we can’t overcome

In his most ­funereal novel, DeLillo describes a wealthy man determined to save his dying wife by keeping her frozen in cryonic suspension for millennia. The trademark DeLillo themes are coolly updated for the Internet age

Zero K is a fascinating, unsettling novel about the uncertainties of humanity’s future

The novel I liked best was Don DeLillo’s Zero K for its sombre tones, its perfect cadences and its rich storyline