We Must Worship
/The first biography of David Foster Wallace is out and it's hardly the sort of book he himself would have written -- or read. Might this be for the best?
Read MoreFrom the Archives: A Voyeur in the Archives
/"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.
Read MoreThe Tigers of Wrath
/Where would Lionel Trilling, godfather of the liberal imagination, fit into our contemporary culture of ideas? And how much of that culture is of his making?
Read MoreCrowd Control to Major Tom
/Tom McCarthy's Derrida-inspired linguistic and narrative fixations are once again on full display in Men in Space, his first novel now reissued after the popularity of Remainder and C
Read More“Your Princess is in Another Castle”
/In the gaming memoir "Unplugged," one man grapples with the story of his own addiction to video games.
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