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 …
Christopher Schaberg
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
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
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
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 …
