Opening with a whirring noise, the song then kicks off with a riffstorm that is unmistakably Testament. Eric Peterson takes the lead while the rest of the band accents the rhythms and gradually work ...

The IRS’s faceless bureaucrats have found their James Joyce, said Lev Grossman in Time. David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008 before finishing this novel, had wished to confront “those ...

Everyone loves a good literary discovery myth (think Emily Dickinson’s dresser), but the accompanying myth for David Foster Wallace’s The Everyone loves a good literary discovery myth (think Emily ...

David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Gets Thoughtful, Glowing ReviewsIt’s not perfect, but in places it comes close. David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Gets Its First Review“It’s sloppy at times, ...

Converting any book to audio is an exacting endeavor. When the book is written by a celebrated author known for his expansive, experimental style (think: footnotes, endnotes, digressions, jargon, ...

David Foster Wallace reading at All Saints Episcipal Church in San Francisco in 2006 (Steve Rhodes/Wikimedia Commons). “We—under our own nihilist spell—seem to require of our writers an ironic ...

In 1996, shortly after the publication of “Infinite Jest,” David Foster Wallace took courses at Harvard University on accounting and federal tax law. He had an idea for a new novel: an exploration of ...

Consider the tax return: the absurd inanity of matching numbers from your personal documents to government forms and filing it under threat of incarceration. Consider how boring the process is to you; ...