It’s remarkable that a book this long and experimental still merits discussions outside of niche literary circles; as literary phenomena go, ‘Infinite Jest’ is a complete aberration The thing is – ...

David Foster Wallace, the late author of ‘Infinite Jest’, a book that’s many contradictory things: self-aware and indulgent, thoughtful and ostentatious, sentimental and nasty, deeply personal and ...

Forget its reputation as a performative read for a certain breed of intense young man, thirty years after its publication, David Foster Wallace’s epic novel still delivers, says the Crying in H Mart ...

Thirty years ago, David Foster Wallace published a book so long it’s still happening. By NS Podcasts Thirty years ago, David Foster Wallace published Infinite Jest – a novel so sprawling, so formally ...

His 'before' body was a huge debate.

There are few books that carry quite so much baggage as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The 1,079-page tome is a sprawling, indulgent, prescient, imaginative and altogether utterly idiosyncratic ...