Wallace, Updike, Dostoyevsky

‘Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays,’ by David Foster Wallace - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times

Turning to literature in essays on Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Updike, Wallace employs a largely moral vocabulary to dismiss such older American novelists as Norman Mailer and Philip Roth as “Great Male Narcissists.” For him, Updike […]