AI-and-fiction book gets its first negative review from a literary critic
_akpiper · x · 2026-11-04
Andrew Piper (McGill professor) shares the first negative review of his book Why You Should Read More Fiction: What Data and AI Tell Us About the Value of Storytelling (Johns Hopkins University Press, 224 pp.), published in the Literary Review of Canada. The critic is skeptical that computers can say anything interesting about literature; Piper jokes that the pushback means they're "on to something." The spat highlights humanities' resistance to computational approaches to reading.
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