Articles of Note

David Streitfeld looks back on David Foster Wallace, who sent chain letters and considered becoming “an advice columnist for the highly distraught”... more »

New Books

Across nearly 50 books, Terry Eagleton has proven the adage that being usefully wrong is often better than being trivially right... more »

Essays & Opinions

Maeve Brennan had lost it. She was sleeping next to a bathroom at The New Yorker and was giving away her money. All William Shawn would say was, “She’s a beautiful writer”... more »