A Reader's Manifesto by B. R. Myers Melville House 160 pages, $9.95 The glowing critical endorsements and prestigious award seals adorning the typical book jacket of the latest acclaimed "literary" ...

When B.R. Myers' essay "A Reader's Manifesto" was published last year in The Atlantic Monthly, intelligentsia-baiting newspaper editors' eyes lit up and book critics fell stonily silent. Myers—an ...

Let us look at the opening paragraphs of Franz Kafka’s ‘METAMORPHOSIS’, translated by David Wyllie. “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed ...

Every 10 years or so, someone speaking from the subtly slick pages of a high-brow magazine declares that the American novel is dead. Or dying. Or getting drunk and making out with strangers at all the ...

When someone says they love stories, we imagine their head buried in a book or them cuddled up in a blanket watching a blockbuster. Seldom do we think of the stories that hide beneath the pixels of ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...