Reflect on the quote by David Foster Wallace, as he said, “Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.” You don’t need to hang on to be in control.

My favorite commencement address is David Foster Wallace’s 2005 address at Kenyon College. In the speech, Wallace lambasts the knee-jerk selfishness and passivity of most college graduates. Wallace ...

In “Believing,” I explained that religion offers people three B’s: beliefs about the world, behaviors to follow and belonging in a community or culture. Readers seized on the last one.

Wallace-Wells: One thing that worries me here is the possibility that we’ve passed through a disturbing bottleneck, to quote Ross, in which many of the old social rules don’t apply.

Foster, 75, tells PEOPLE "Something to Shout About" is the “11 o’clock number” in Boop! The Musical, opening April 5 at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City, and marks the point in the ...

David Foster Wallace’s fiction is not a user’s guide or a set of instructions for how to live. It invites thinking, feeling, and seeing the world more clearly.