Tag: David Foster Wallace

  • Arts & Culture

    A too-short life, examined

    D.T. Max, author of a new biography of David Foster Wallace, sat down with professor and critic James Wood to discuss the writer’s legacy and his brief time at Harvard, a catalyst for the breakdown and recovery that inspired much of Wallace’s masterpiece, “Infinite Jest.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Whistling through the darkness

    Authors offer perspective on finding meaning in a secular age, using literature as a lens through which to understand how people found solace in the past.