Features
Thursday, September 29 2011
The Collision of 'Roadside Picnic' and 'Infinite Jest'
We have love and jealousy and revenge. All this from a McArthur grant recipient with a reputation as one of the most challenging and polarizing writers of his generation. What's going on?
Wednesday, April 20 2011
The Ferocious Morality of David Foster Wallace
Any relationship with Wallace is destined for generosity, spirituality, and given the honesty and vulnerability of the writer, intimacy. It’s also going to be a serious challenge. It will challenge the reader’s intellect, ideology, and most of all, conception of morality.
Thursday, June 3 2010
Infinite Gesturing?: James Wood Takes on David Foster Wallace
“Reading Wallace,” says literary critic James Wood, “is like playing a reed instrument. When do you take a breath?”
Thursday, September 18 2008
This is Water: Remembering David Foster Wallace
Nicholson Baker. Bill Murray. Mark Leyner. David Byrne. Steve Martin. The Coen Brothers. And in the middle of it all, David Foster Wallace.
Columns
Tuesday, June 7 2011
David Foster Wallace's Posthumous 'The Pale King' Explores Self-Consciousness As a Disease
The problem with The Pale King is not that it killed a great writer, but that a great writer’s own problems became the narrowing factor for what might have been his greatest work.
Reviews
Tuesday, December 2 2003
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
This account of infinity is enough to make a head reel, as paradoxes, mind games, and riddles that left the greatest minds in mathematics stumped for ages are packed into a matter of a few hundred pages.
Blogs
Tuesday, July 28 2009
Infinite Flameout
I really wanted to get with the zeitgeist and read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest this summer. But at page 236, in the middle of…
