Editors' Choice Recent Books Of Particular Interest.

THE PALE KING: An Unfinished Novel, by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Unfolding on an epic scale, this coherent, if uncompleted, portrayal of our age is a grand parable of ''late capitalism'' set in the innards of the Internal Revenue Service. FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE: An Essay on Free Will, by David Foster Wallace. Edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Columbia University, paper, $19.95.) Wallace's precocious undergraduate thesis on the philosopher Richard Taylor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]