Included here is the wonderful “Up, Simba” (the director’s cut), a consideration of what John McCain’s presidential bid reveals about “millennial politics and all its packaging and marketing,” and how the “general sepsis actually makes us US voters feel.” It is an essay that showcases Wallace’s ability to capture the queer gamut of our citizenry, from “Talmudically bearded guys asking about Chechnya” to “the obligatory walleyed fundamentalist trying to pin down on whether Christ really called homosexuality an abomination.” In “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” he suggests why the Russian master is important to today’s American, citing his degrees of passion, conviction and engagement with deep moral issues, as well as his great plots and splendid, alive characterizations. Another savory, hard-thinking, wildly imaginative collection of essays and observations from the artful Wallace ( Oblivion, 2004, etc.).
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