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Since the 1950's, paranoia and conspiracy theory have increasingly surfaced in not only avant-garde literature, but marginal political discourse as well. Timothy Melley... calls these expressions of anxiety about the loss of personal control 'agency panic.'... He draws connections between... Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and others to explain the culturewide significance of this syndrome. --Publishers Weekly Melley identifies an emerging irony that a 'supposedly individualist culture conserves its individualism by continually imagining it to be in imminent peril.'... Melley's commentary on the new significance of the corporation in the postwar period makes up one of the most interesting sections of his study... Empire of Conspiracy makes an important contribution to the current re-examination of Cold War culture, especially to the debate over human agency. --David Seed, Liverpool University Journal of American Studies

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Timothy Melley is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.

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