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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One of Jane Austen’s jokes in Pride and Prejudice concerns the jealous Caroline Bingley sneering at Elizabeth Bennet, ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The lesson from a stabbing death in Russia: Alcohol and literature can be a lethal mix. A former schoolteacher killed his friend after a drunken argument over which is superior, ...
Black bookstores have long been sanctuaries — nurturing Black thought, incubating ideas and cultivating the next generation of readers, writers and revolutionaries. Katie Mitchell’s forthcoming book, ...
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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