Anyway, during my lunch breaks, I’d wander outside to a quiet spot to read before heading back to class. And for one ...

David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards ...

Like Cormac McCarthy, Wallace was a serious moralist with zero political vision: witness the cynical collapsing of Left and ...

Infinite Jest, the thousand-page novel by David Foster Wallace that turns 30 this month, to answer the question once and for all: Do we have to read this book?

On the 30th anniversary of “Infinite Jest,” a former assistant to his editor looks back on a complicated mind and ...

They include monolithic memoirs by Primo Levi and Nelson Mandela, seminal British fiction from the likes of Beryl Bainbridge and Iain Banks, and significant works of contemporary American literature ...

Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’ - COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 ...

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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 ...

But because it's so long and dense and hipsterish, and was written by a man whose personal struggles have been grossly romanticized all the more following his 2008 suicide, Infinite Jest has also ...

William Beutler’s painstakingly detailed "Infinite Atlas" provides yet another layer to David Foster Wallace’s famously dense work. Infographic of the Day: A Map of Infinite Jest’s Zillion Characters ...

Friday Essay: Weirdly Old-Fashioned And Wildly Uneven David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest At 30. Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a ...