Nobel Prize

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

The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation That Conquered Malaria—and Won a Nobel

Giving Malala Yousafzai the Nobel Could Rob Her of Power

Meet This Year's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Patrick Modiano is a post-Proustian novelist

Nobel Prize in Literature Predictions Are Almost Always Wrong

Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

An Obnoxious Atheist Insulted Islam, and This is What Happened

Why Nobel Prize Oddsmakers are Usually So Wrong