The Latest Breaking News from David Foster Wallace

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

Comforting reassurance was once the work of the church. Now it’s increasingly being sought from the machine

Sad androids, criminal bodybuilders, and forest witches galore

The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks

On the same day Arsenal defeated Manchester United on penalties to win the 2005 FA Cup final, David Foster Wallace delivered perhaps the most celebrated commencement speech of modern times. Standing in front of graduating students at Kenyon College, Ohio, he opened with a joke:

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

In the summer of 2017, Anna Funder found herself “at a moment of peak overload”. Juggling the competing demands of getting her children ready for the new school year, grocery shopping, home maintenance and caring for members of her extended family, Funder felt she had been spiritually drained by the…

LOS ANGELES — Jason Segel is sitting at a table outside Jones Coffee on Mission Street in South Pasadena, a short walk from his home — too short, in fact, if he's hoping to make much of a dent in the 15,000 steps he needs to do today as part…

His work is freaky and frightening, yet today the Twin Peaks director cuts an almost cosy figure. As he turns 77 – a number of significance – we explore how real life caught up with his dark visions