MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewColson Whitehead is a literary novelist, but his latest book, Zone One, features zombies, which means horror fans and gore gourmands will soon have him on their radar ... But unless they’re entirely beyond the beguilements of art they will also feel fruitfully disturbed, because Zone One will have forced them, whether they signed up for it or not, to see the strangeness of the familiar and the familiarity of the strange ... A plot summary is impossible: there isn’t a plot. To make matters worse, the protagonist is a laconic introvert of self-avowed mediocrity ...once he finds his register, Whitehead writes with economy, texture and punch. He has a talent for sardonic aphorism...a cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludic violence, strangely tender novel, a celebration of modernity and a pre-emptive wake for its demise.