On the 30th anniversary of “Infinite Jest,” a former assistant to his editor looks back on a complicated mind and ...
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 Right in Infinite Jest and the witlessly two-dimensional image it presents ...