fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
"Go, litel book," he bids the manuscript that's soon to be out of his hands. "That thou be understonde I god beseche!" Had Chaucer stuck around to witness the ensuing six hundred-plus years of literary discourse-and the past few decades in particular-he might have concluded that, when it comes to being understonde, the litel books aren't the ones you have to worry about. It's the big ones that'll get you.