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 ...
A poetry lover stabbed his friend to death after a dispute about whether verse or prose was the superior literary form. The former teacher, 53, was visiting his friend Yury Nikitkin, 66, in the town ...
NO matter how strange it may sound, the fact is though Urdu was born in North India, its earliest written literary pieces, whether in prose or poetry, were created in South India. The word ‘Deccan’ ...
Myers reports in this audacious broadside upon current American literary writing that, "at the 1999 National Book Awards ceremony, Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had to puzzle ...
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 ...
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 ...
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