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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
MOSCOW—A dispute between two Russians over the respective merits of poetry and prose ended up with one of them, a former teacher, stabbing his friend to death, investigators said Wednesday. The two ...
A Russian teacher allegedly killed a friend in a drunken argument over literary genres, investigators have said. The pair engaged in an animated discussion on the merits of poetry over prose during a ...
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 ...