Few opuses come quite as magnum as Infinite Jest, an intimidating tree stump of a book that makes for singularly cumbersome beach reading. Anyone put off by the sheer bulk of Wallace’s masterpiece, ...

As theater audiences learned in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Jewish parents by tradition want their children to marry within the faith. And so it goes in James Sherman’s 1989 play “Beau Jest,” which opened ...

Jest, the first marketplace for messaging apps that use texting protocols SMS and RCS, has launched the Jest Games Fund to support studios building games "for the RCS messaging ecosystem" that can be ...

Thirty years after publication, "Infinite Jest" has settled into the background noise of American culture, faint but unmistakable. You notice it whenever the conversation turns to addiction, ...

Abstract: Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of ...

For years now, when we think of mobile gaming, we think of app stores. Developers invest countless hours, months, or even years creating games just to surrender a significant portion — up to 30% — of ...

This essay and interview appear in this week’s The Book Pages newsletter. For more information and book coverage, sign up for the free newsletter. Years ago, I taught English as a Second Language at a ...

We made our hosts read (some of) Infinite Jest, the thousand-page novel by David Foster Wallace that turns 30 this month, to answer the question once and for all: Do we have to read this book? The ...

It's remarkable that a book this long and experimental still merits discussions outside of niche literary circles; as literary phenomena go, 'Infinite Jest' is a complete aberration The thing is – ...

A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...