If political differences always leave us divided and friendless, how do you explain Joel Fox?

Like Cormac McCarthy, Wallace was a serious moralist with zero political vision: witness the cynical collapsing of Left and Right in Infinite Jest and the witlessly two-dimensional image it presents ...

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a ...