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Christopher Schaberg

The David Foster Wallace Reader

Book Review by Christopher Schaberg

The David Foster Wallace Reader, Little, Brown & Co., 2014. $35.00, 976 pages.

I’ve been on the fence about writing a review of The David Foster Wallace Reader since I received my copy in the mail. I’m fascinated by …

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

Book Review by Christopher Schaberg

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption, by Robert Appelbaum. Zero Books, 2014. $22.95, 242 pages.

Some books make you want to write. Other books make you want to read—either things by the same author, or things on the …

Speech Begins after Death

Book Review by Christopher Schaberg

Speech Begins after Death, by Michel Foucault (in conversation with Claude Bonnefoy). Ed. Philippe Artières. Trans. Robert Bononno. University of Minnesota Press, 2013. $24.95, 96 pages.

In this small, short, and entirely arresting book, the reader gets a brief …

Infinite Rest: On D.T. Max’s Biography of David Foster Wallace

Book Review by Christopher Schaberg

A one-star Amazon review of D.T. Max’s new biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, lampoons the book as “SHALLOW.” Another one-star review accuses the book of being full of pointless factoids. But it …

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Call for submissions for issue #51, as well as our poetry and micro essay contests. Learn more and submit your work here.

New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

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