Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

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.”

The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

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.