We Must Worship
/The first biography of David Foster Wallace is out and it's hardly the sort of book he himself would have written -- or read. Might this be for the best?
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/Where would Lionel Trilling, godfather of the liberal imagination, fit into our contemporary culture of ideas? And how much of that culture is of his making?
Read MoreDevil Twins
/Is Don DeLillo's short game as good as his long? Is it better? His first collection of short fiction -- or is it his first? -- offers occasion to take the much-lauded writer's measure.
Read MoreMetaphor Machine, Manufacture and Maintenance
/Critics were often baffled by Ray Bradbury in his heyday, and biographers have been equally baffled ever since, but the quest goes on to understand the man who did as much as anybody to give science fiction the shape it has today.
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