Books by Karl A. Plank

Plank¿s study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace¿s Infinite Jest is a stubborn act of ethical and religious significance, that the trek through its many pages may, in the end, redeem its reader from the lethal loneliness that is "the fact of the cage."

Is it possible to empathize fully with the victims of the Holocaust? Can those who approach the Holocaust in the aftermath ever know it in a way that does not trivialize its horror? With what language can we speak of such an event without at the same time betraying its meaning? In this powerful book, Karl Plank takes a hard look at these...