In today’s fast-paced world with its instant gratification culture, it feels almost impossible to find moments of peace and quiet.

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of UA alumnus David Foster Wallace’s suicide. After getting his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English at Amherst College, Wallace earned his Master of ...

His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan ...

There is only one way to immortality: straight and fast. The old cliché follows the idea that it’s better to burn out bright than to fade. It’s a philosophy that has led to a hall of fallen heroes ...

When David Foster Wallace first published “Shipping Out” in Harper’s Magazine in 1996, it changed readers’ ideas about what magazine journalism could say and sound like. Arriving just a month before ...

Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’ - COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus remains a seismic literary achievement, writes Louis Chilton. Anyone com ...

CLAREMONT, Calif. — David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had ...

David Foster Wallace was young enough when he published his first novel, The Broom of the System, in 1987, that critics who read his witty marathon sentences and then flipped to the author photo of a ...

In this month of college and university graduations, I often like to revisit one commencement speech which struck a nerve many years ago. Back in 2005, the late David Foster Wallace spoke at Kenyon ...

To survive the dog days of summer, try reading one (or all) of these suggestions by writers, critics and editors at The Times. By Times Insider Staff At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the ...