Sublime

Maria Popova,

The old man looks out at the smears of rain vibrating on the window glass. His smile fades. “But Arthur, there is hope.” The great author quietly says:

Infinite Jest counterposes sincerity and faith against moral lassitude.

batter,”

In 2007, Timothy Jacobs, a Canadian scholar, wrote a thoughtful paper marking out the links between The Brothers Karamazov and Infinite Jest.

Baldwin

all his work was “journalism”—essentially responses to current events.