Clair McFarland writes: "Welcome to my book review, which I’m writing because my four sons (now teen- and pre-teen-aged) are ...

(Blake Cale / For The Times; photographs by Getty Images, Adobe Stock, Times Books, Chatto & Windus, Simon & Schuster and Viking) Computers were ugly hulking gray or beige boxes then, taking up so ...

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The internet would have us believe public transport is full of men ostentatiously reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Is this a joke?

Books can be difficult to teach for several reasons. They can be too stuffy, profane, archaic, mundane or pretentious. There are many students who would happily banish novels like these from their ...

Thousands of socially networked bibliophiles have pledged to tackle David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest over three months this summer, endnotes and all, as part of the Infinite Summerchallenge. Back ...

Computers were ugly hulking gray or beige boxes then, taking up so much desk space. In 1996 I worked at Disney Interactive, my Windows 95 operating system skinned with an “X-Files” theme; when I ...