Brief Interviews with Hideous Fans: The Ethics of Being a David Foster Wallace Fan

It is possible to be a fan of someone’s work without insisting that everyone else feel the same way.

The High Price of Survival: Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

Sometimes an artist has to choose between living a principled life or just living at all. The novelist Julian Barnes imagines the high cost of this choice for the composer Shostakovich under Stalin.