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Michel Houellebecq
October 5, 2022
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The Politics of Everything
The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.
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October 3, 2022
Critical Mass
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?
If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.
January 21, 2020
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
Michel Houellebecq’s Fragile World
How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?
July 19, 2017
Magazine
Yascha Mounk
European Disunion
What the rise of populist movements means for democracy.
March 29, 2017
Jeffrey Zuckerman
Mathias Énard’s
Compass
Is the Antidote to Europe’s Islamophobia
In a time of fear and loathing, Énard’s magnum opus points us toward the reality behind so many myths of the Orient.
October 19, 2015
Calum Marsh
Is Michel Houellebecq's 'Submission' Really So Controversial?
His novel—published the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack—is finally available in English.
January 7, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Most Recent Target of Charlie Hebdo's Satire Wasn't Islam. It Was Islamophobia.
The French paper skewered all forms of dogmatic thinking
August 13, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Apocalyptic Lit, Pornographic Lit, Ultra-Orthodox Lit: Today's TNR Reader
August 25, 2010
Ruth Franklin
SWF, Loves Sebald, Seeks Same in Man
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