Staff Picks returns this spring with selections from News Editor Drew Gillis, who just devoured Ben Lerner’s latest novel, and Games Editor Garrett Martin, who spotlights an indie game with a unique ...

The narrator’s memories of that afternoon, despite his disoriented state, are real. In some ways, this shows how humans have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early on in Transcription, Ben Lerner’s new novel, the narrator finds himself without a cell phone. (Or more precisely, without a ...

At the start of Ben Lerner's startling new novel "Transcription," a man sits on a train trying to read and failing because he is facing the wrong direction. His daughter has given him the phrase for ...

Ben Lerner's new novel, "Transcription," explores humanity's complex relationship with technology. The book is divided into three sections that are tenuously linked together. The reviewer finds some ...