David Foster Wallace

The essayist’s fans hunt obsessively for anything he publishes. Now, with the publication of ‘Loitering,’ the uninitiated can discover what all the fuss is about.

Novelist David Shafer talks about his dark horse hit, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, about the perils and pleasures of success, and the dangers of living online.

The late J.D. Salinger reportedly instructed his estate to release at least five more books starting in 2015, potentially joining the ranks of these stellar works posthumously published.

As Brad Pitt battles zombie hordes, an unusual new take on the zombie novel has just appeared on bookshelves. J.T. Price on the perils and liberties of the genre in reading Bennett Sims’s A Questionable Shape.

As thousands of Carnival passengers languish in the Gulf of Mexico, we revisit more tales of deprivation on the high seas, from an epic David Foster Wallace exposé to pirates and viruses.

David Foster Wallace’s essays might be stylistically experimental, but it betrays a traditionalist at heart, says David Masciotra.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas seemed impossible to adapt to the silver screen, but here it is. We asked readers what other impossible book they’d turn into a movie. David Foster Wallace tops the list.