In 2003, a moment marked by the inevitable consequences of 9/11, Don DeLillo published Cosmopolis, a novel openly dedicated to Paul Auster that, in some ways, vaguely evokes the urban atmosphere of Auster’s New York Trilogy (1987). Among DeLillo’s works, New York plays a prominent role. As Alsahira Alkhayer observes, “The interactions between characters and their surroundings form the basis of the discussion which summons the field of urban studies right into the core of DeLillo’s texts and bear correlated strands of space, time and the self, enveloped in DeLillo’s fictional cityscape” (234). Unlike the novels examined thus far, as will be later discussed, the protagonist of Cosmopolis does not navigate urban space on foot but traverses it by car, which becomes the privileged means of urban exploration.