Why The Novel Is Being Superseded

The novel represented a maturation of storytelling—the adulthood offiction, taking the reader into the interior of the human person. Now,the form is on its deathbed. Lingering readers are seeking in itsomething other—diversion, entertainment—than what the readers of JaneAusten or the Brontes, Dickens or Kafka, were seeking back in the day.– First Things