The conventional game mechanics of today's WoW-like MMORPGs are thousands of years old -- at least dating back to the Ancient Greeks. That's the thesis of Classics professor Roger Travis of the ...

Jonathan Franzen's “Crossroads” is a hefty experiment: How far can you get exploring American ordinariness with a Tolstoyan depth? Quite far, actually.

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Each leaf (in 8vo.) contains about 60 lines, but the two leaves are not consecutive. We have thus 120 lines of an Old English Epic, on the adventures of [???]Etla (Attila) the Waldere (Walther).

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The stage is set and as it stands, one out of the overwhelming 252 entries received for the 2025 Nigeria Prize For Literature will, expectedly, emerge victorious come October this year.

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Elizabeth Doss watches a rehearsal of "Poor Herman," a play about Herman Melville's epic literary failure, "Pierre; or the Ambiguities." The play, written and directed by Doss, Melville's ...

Please try again later. A novel charting the Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall has been longlisted for a major literary prize.