Jason Guriel
The View from Here
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest—which turns 30 this month—foresaw a near-future America pleasuring itself to death. We’re living in it
After the Flood
Decades before climate change became irrefutable, the English novelist J. G. Ballard envisioned a much warmer world with vastly higher sea levels
Built to Last
It sputtered at the box office, but 50 years on it’s clear that Two-Lane Blacktop is the great American road movie
