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David Foster Wallace
May 5, 2023
MagazineLaura Kipnis
The Problem With Art by “Monsters”
Separating the artist from the art is not the hard part.
February 12, 2020
Laura Marsh
Infinite Jerk
Adrienne Miller’s memoir of her relationship with David Foster Wallace is part of an emerging genre of women coming of age via an older, powerful man.
April 4, 2018
MagazineSiddhartha Deb
A Model Businessman
What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise
March 21, 2017
Alex Shephard
Neil Gorsuch will be our first lit bro Supreme Court justice.
February 11, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Karl Ove Knausgaard is about to be DFW’d.
May 28, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New David Foster Wallace Movie Isn’t a Biopic. It’s Another 'Rolling Stone' Writer Flick.
February 27, 2014
Leslie Jamison
Which Creates Better Writers: An MFA Program or New York City?
'MFA vs NYC' investigates the relationship between creativity and collectivity
December 17, 2013
John Gallagher
The Cobainification of David Foster Wallace
November 22, 2013
Adam Plunkett
What Happens When a Professor Tries To Use Philosophy to Prevent Suicide
August 26, 2013
Hillary Kelly
Ten Other Posthumously Discovered Novels
Salinger isn't the only one
January 7, 2013
Noreen Malone
Elizabeth Wurtzel Doesn't Reveal Enough About Herself (No, Really!)
September 14, 2012
Ruth Franklin
Reader: Keep Up!
The identity crisis of Zadie Smith.
November 9, 2011
Ruth Franklin
The Hermaphrodite
August 24, 2011
Ruth Franklin
The Stubborn, Inward Gaze of the Post-9/11 Novel
July 28, 2011
Adam Kirsch
The Importance of Being Earnest
February 18, 2010
Jason Zengerle
The Scribbler
Tucker Carlson’s latest venture will not be televised. Thank goodness.
October 3, 2009
Stanley Kauffmann
Attitudes, Plus Love
David Foster Wallace, streamlined; good feelings in Paris
October 3, 2009
Stanley Kauffmann
Kauffmann: Films Worth Seeing
September 21, 2009
Stanley Kauffmann
Films Worth Seeing
December 16, 2008
The New Republic Staff
Dfw And The 'agony Of Cognition'

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