At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the banality of the graduation ceremony is a tradition worth celebrating. By A.O. Scott Over the past few weekends, graduating seniors at American colleges ...

How do you turn David Foster Wallace’s just-shy-of-4000-words Kenyon commencement speech into a saleable, hardbound book? Sentence by sentence, evidently. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a ...

In this month of college and university graduations, I often like to revisit one commencement speech which struck a nerve many years ago. Back in 2005, the late David Foster Wallace spoke at Kenyon ...

Think you know what simple words like "play" and "fun" mean? Ian Bogost's latest book Play Anything will bake your noodle. Flowchart: David Foster Wallace On How To Live A Compassionate Life In "This ...

Flowchart: David Foster Wallace On How To Live A Compassionate Life In "This Is Water," David Foster Wallace offers thoughts on living a compassionate life. Jessica Hagy beautifully illustrates them ...