The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Just Trolling Now
In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.
In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect.
The prize has undergone a distinct change in recent years, opting for best-selling writers and rock stars.
The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.
This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.
A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.
Donald Trump drowned out nearly every cultural event in 2016. And it’s only going to get worse.
There might not be a better time to recognize the accomplishments of the master chronicler of American dread.
Not Bob Dylan, that's for sure.
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.
An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich's book "Secondhand Time."
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
Patrick Modiano is a post-Proustian novelist