cover image The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Sven Birkerts. Ballantine Books, $19 (248pp) ISBN 978-0-449-91009-2

In his jeremiad, literary critic Birkets predicts that the information superhighway will lead to an erosion of language and a diminishing of sustained critical thought. (Nov.)