Nobel Prize in Literature: Jon Fosse Is the 2023 Laureate
The Norwegian writer was honored “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” The prize is awarded for a writer’s entire body of work.
A Guide to Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Books and Plays
His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.
How to Choose the Nobel Laureate: Tap a Literature Professor
The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.
What Can Writers Learn From Turtles?
While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.
Poem: Jobs for the Weekend
This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.
Interview: Banana Yoshimoto
“I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Premonition.” “It’s the best feeling.”
Reading Amy Bloom on the Power, and Limitations, of Love
For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.
Book Review: ‘Watch Your Language’ and ‘So to Speak,’ by Terrance Hayes
The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas.
Book Review: ‘Our Strangers,’ by Lydia Davis
In the author’s latest collection, “Our Strangers,” quotidian situations are stripped down to come alive.
The Moomins Live in the World Tove Jansson Wanted
A new exhibition in Paris explores how Tove Jansson imagined a kind world that reflected her values as a lesbian artist and ardent pacifist.
Book Review: ‘The Halt During the Chase,’ by Rosemary Tonks
In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.
Book Review: ‘The Hank Show,’ by McKenzie Funk
McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.
Read Your Way Through Missoula
Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time immemorial, says Debra Magpie Earling, one of its writers. Here, she recommends her favorites.
Ed Young Dies at 91; Infused His Illustrations With Chinese Tradition
Over a 60-year career, he illustrated some 100 books of fairy tales, poetry and memoirs, and won three Caldecott Medals.
Harvey Awards to Induct 6 New Hall of Fame Members
The inductees will be honored at New York Comic Con on Oct. 13. Five are from the world of superheroes, and one is a pioneer of underground comics.
2023 National Book Award Finalists Are Named
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Paul Harding and Cristina Rivera Garza are among the honorees. Winners will be announced next month.
In 'Our Strangers,' life's less exciting aspects are deemed fascinating
Lydia Davis' focus has shifted largely from issues of parenting and domestic relationships to aspects of aging — but the results are as penetrating as anything she's written.
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Book Review: ‘Menewood,’ by Nicola Griffith
“Menewood” continues Nicola Griffith’s epic portrayal of the abbess Hild of Whitby.
Book Review: ‘A Man of Two Faces,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The author blends polemic and family history in a fragmentary memoir, “A Man of Two Faces.”
Book Review: ‘If We Burn,’ by Vincent Bevins, and ‘The Loom of Time,’ by Robert D. Kaplan
Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
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