Don Delillo's seventeenth novel, THE SILENCE (Scribner, 2020), is set in 2022. Five friends gather in a New York apartment to watch the Super Bowl between the Tennesee Titans and the Seattle Seahawks. Two friends, a couple, are late. The others are waiting for the game to begin. The power goes out. This is the future that Delillo forces us to see. In only 117 pages, he tells the story of what happens when nothing works anymore. The novel itself is formatted as if written on a manual typewriter (that is how DeLillo writes). Double spaced. You are in times past. This small sample of how people engage with each other is bleak. Meant to be. One might say it is a true story of where we are going.