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

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.

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.

This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.