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Nobel Prize
October 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
What Happened to the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The prize has undergone a distinct change in recent years, opting for best-selling writers and rock stars.
October 5, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What’s So “Inscrutable” About Kazuo Ishiguro?
The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.
October 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature?
This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.
September 12, 2017
MagazineAlan Wolfe
Rules for Radicals
A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.
December 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The Year That Culture Disappeared
Donald Trump drowned out nearly every cultural event in 2016. And it’s only going to get worse.
October 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
🎶 “Come gather ‘round children wherever ya roam / it’s high time you learned that Bob Dylan is a troll” 🎶
October 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
Bob Dylan is a fine Nobel Laureate.
October 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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

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