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Opinion: Culture
David Foster Wallace, postmodern moralist, dead at 46
Posted by on 09.15.08 |
The apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, the prodigiously talented author of the novel Infinite Jest, is a sad, stunning end for a writer whose best work burst with unflagging energy and propulsive imagination. Though often lumped with postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon, Wallace's fiction had a deeply-felt humanity and breadth-of-scope … READ MORE >
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Opinion: Books
The Archbishop of Canterbury Reads Dostoevsky
Posted by on 10.02.08 |
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has recently written a book about Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The book—Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction—has drawn some controversy, not so much for its content, but for the question of whether it should have been written in the first place. … READ MORE >
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