The Limits of Irony

by Dan Hitchens

Our age of irony has its dangers—irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.  Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2017

David Foster Wallace to the Rescue

by James K. A. Smith

Let’s not speak of suicide. Let’s not encourage the cottage industry bent on reducing David Foster Wallace to a literary Kurt Cobain, a romance of self-demise. This is a significant temptation for any posthumous reading of Wallace, whose writing is populated by suicides and addicts and clients . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2013