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October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Here’s a fun rumor about the Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
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.
October 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Bob Dylan, that's for sure.
August 29, 2016
Sophie Pinkham
Witness Tampering
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.
May 24, 2016
Svetlana Alexievich
On a Loneliness That Resembles Happiness
An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich's book "Secondhand Time."
October 9, 2015
Sophie Pinkham
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
October 6, 2015
Jia-Chen Fu
The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation That Conquered Malaria—and Won a Nobel
October 13, 2014
Tabish Khair
Giving Malala Yousafzai the Nobel Could Rob Her of Power
October 9, 2014
James McAuley
Meet This Year's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
Patrick Modiano is a post-Proustian novelist
October 8, 2013
Carly Cody
Nobel Prize in Literature Predictions Are Almost Always Wrong
August 30, 2013
Eavan Boland
Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
August 13, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
An Obnoxious Atheist Insulted Islam, and This is What Happened
October 11, 2012
Chloe Schama
Why Nobel Prize Oddsmakers are Usually So Wrong

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