What happened to hypertext fiction? If you were alive and literate in the 1990s, you may remember the hype with which hypertext was touted as the next big thing: a medium that had the potential to ...

Traditionalists worry that the Internet will render books obsolete. We have our doubts about that, but it is likely to transform the act of reading. To find out how pointing and clicking through ...

FOR a thoroughly modern word, hypertext has surprisingly ancient antecedents. Contrary to what you might think, it’s not exclusively a device of the World Wide Web, but has been around in one form or ...