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Chuck Klosterman’s ‘The Nineties’ Reads Like a Complex Murder Board

Chuck Klosterman’s ‘The Nineties’ Reads Like a Complex Murder Board

Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties glosses subjects like Green Day, the Green Party, and Alan Greenspan like an insanely complex, cross-eyed inducing murder board.

Satire’s American King Bret Easton Ellis Whites Himself Out with Alleged Work of Non-Fiction, ‘White’

Satire’s American King Bret Easton Ellis Whites Himself Out with Alleged Work of Non-Fiction, ‘White’

Let's pretend for a moment that Bret Easton Ellis is capable of such a staggering feat of truth-telling, and read White as if it is indeed a work of nonfiction.

Paul Verhoeven’s Authenticity Came to Light at Chicago’s Logan Arcade

Paul Verhoeven’s Authenticity Came to Light at Chicago’s Logan Arcade

Some works by Paul Verhoeven, a director known for satire, were shown in an ironic setting this summer. The result was an earnestness soaked in blood.
David Foster Wallace and the Work That Made the Man

David Foster Wallace and the Work That Made the Man

The posthumous The Pale King finally gets its day in court.

David Foster Wallace Unpacks Pop Fiction

The Ghost of Ted Mosby Lingers in ‘Liberal Arts’

In America, Imagination is a Third Party: The Presidency in Fiction

‘Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story’ Is a Short Account of a Too-Short Life

‘How to Make It in America’? Well for Starters, Don’t Make Hopeful Television

The Ferocious Morality of David Foster Wallace

Infinite Gesturing?: James Wood Takes on David Foster Wallace

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace