What Happened to the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The prize has undergone a distinct change in recent years, opting for best-selling writers and rock stars.
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What’s So “Inscrutable” About Kazuo Ishiguro?
The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.
Who Will Win the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature?
This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.
Rules for Radicals
A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.
The Year That Culture Disappeared
Donald Trump drowned out nearly every cultural event in 2016. And it’s only going to get worse.
Is it Don DeLillo’s Year to Win the Nobel Prize?
There might not be a better time to recognize the accomplishments of the master chronicler of American dread.
Who Will Win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Bob Dylan, that's for sure.
Witness Tampering
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.
On a Loneliness That Resembles Happiness
An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich's book "Secondhand Time."
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
Meet This Year's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
Patrick Modiano is a post-Proustian novelist
