László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.

Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.

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.

The child witnesses in her new book focus on the bewildering experience of war.

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.

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.