The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

Sixteen economists predict that a second Trump term would cause inflation to skyrocket.

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

The Harvard economist’s legacy is her economic history of women in the workforce. But her work on income inequality was also pathbreaking.

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

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.

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.