David Foster Wallace delivered one of the most widely shared and admired graduation speeches of all time. It still rewards ...

Their presence offers a quiet model for how to show up for someone who’s hurting: not by fixing them, but simply by staying ...

Feb. 21, 1962 - Sept. 12, 2008 David Foster Wallace used his prodigious gifts as a writer his manic, exuberant prose, his ferocious powers of observation, his ability to fuse avant-garde ...

David Foster Wallace, Self-Help Reader. David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, “The Pale King,” may be unfinished, but it is still 548 pages long.

Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.

For Wallace, Sampras, with his no-nonsense focus on discipline, clarity, power and physicality (athleticism) represented Spartan virtues. Agassi, colorful, philosophical, impulsive and iconoclastic, ...

Bezos wedding’s brazen extravagance is a signal that ridiculing the wealthy and powerful, who seem to have immunized ...

In 1996, Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxury cruise person, goes on a week-long luxury cruise in the Caribbean.

To better understand what it takes to succeed on Centre Court, pick up one of these books about a few of the greatest players ...

I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his ...

Segel remembered that “The End of the Tour” director James Ponsoldt told him, “Every time you do comedy, I can tell you want ...

On Tuesday, July 1, from 5:30-6:30 p.m., the Southwest Harbor Public Library will host “Banning Books in America: Not a ...