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 ...

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 ...

University of Arizona alumnus and heralded as the “Voice of a Generation” by far too many people to count, David Foster Wallace was one hell of a writer — to put it mildly. And while he’s well known ...

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 ...

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 ...