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

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?

COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus remains a seismic literary achievement, writes .

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

Americans are radicalized, not because they care too much about politics, but because they’re bored. In our culture, stripped ...

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

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, ...

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, ...

Infinite Jest is a kind of geological cross-section of a writer and a literary culture at a moment of major upheaval.

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 ...