Few opuses come quite as magnum as Infinite Jest, an intimidating tree stump of a book that makes for singularly cumbersome beach reading. Anyone put off by the sheer bulk of Wallace’s masterpiece, ...

For years now, when we think of mobile gaming, we think of app stores. Developers invest countless hours, months, or even years creating games just to surrender a significant portion — up to 30% — of ...

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 ...

This essay and interview appear in this week’s The Book Pages newsletter. For more information and book coverage, sign up for the free newsletter. Years ago, I taught English as a Second Language at a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...

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, ...

A new 30th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest is on the way, and it features a foreword from Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner. Although nothing has yet been confirmed yet, the new edition has ...

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Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them? I consider no activity more luxurious than posting up at a bar solo with a good book. The ...