Infinite Jest

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week One

In our first-ever book club, Emily and Lily get into what makes the first section of David Foster Wallace's most famous novel enthralling and infuriating.

The paper yearns to return to its maker | Credit: Emily St. James

The cover of Beth March Returns from the Dead, cropped to just the first three words and the face of a woman covered by flowers

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Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven

This week: the enthralling and the exhausting kind of become one singular thing.

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era (preview)

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Donald Glover and Zazie Beetz star in Atlanta. He's in a blue shirt and blue striped tie. She's in a faded blue dress. They're at the door of a large house, smiling hi.

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era

Watching the show's first season in 2026 is an exercise in seeing just how far Hollywood "progressivism" has fallen across a decade.

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Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era (preview)

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era