I describe in chapter 4 the dialectic of computerized complexity and balance-scale simplicity that underlies the moral vision of Brief Interviews.

in addition to finding new dimensions in his representation of numismatics

Wallace's suicide has made for more personalized tributes and roman à clefs than studies of influence usually account for

At issue is an act of painful balance and ratiocination

Broom thus offers a bracingly Rabelaisian account of a postmodern capitalism

built over centuries a secular infrastruture predicated on damning the preterite

the way this state was historically hewn out of the wilderness

"[...] ousia taken as oikos, everyday household life, house and hearth"

Wallace's thinking was almost always about immanence

there is no way to do real work and thus provide real value or energy, Wallace's onomastics imply, without pulling one's weight