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Olga Tokarczuk
March 2, 2022
Jake Bittle
How Olga Tokarczuk Finds Possibility in the Past
Her encyclopedic historical novel “The Books of Jacob” takes us to a world before nationalism.
October 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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.
October 10, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Just Trolling Now
In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.
October 10, 2019
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Rachel Riederer
Olga Tokarczuk’s Gripping Eco-Mystery
The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.
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