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The Jewish Half-Lives of Patrick Modiano

The Nobel laureate on the paper trail of evanescent French Jews, in ‘Family Record’

By Bailey Trela · September 6, 2019

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Like a Roman Stone

Episode 113: Footsteps Executive Director Lani Santo and ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ author Richard F. Thomas

By Unorthodox · November 27, 2017

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Like Shakespeare, Bob Dylan Was ‘Too Occupied’ to Think About Whether He Was Writing Literature

As expected, Dylan didn’t show to the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm over the weekend. But his speech—and Patti Smith’s rendition of ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’—created a moving moment.

By Jonathan Zalman · December 12, 2016

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Hebrew’s Nobel Prize

On the 50th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s acceptance speech

By Jeffrey Saks · December 9, 2016

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Bob Dylan Remains Mum About His Nobel Prize

An upcoming 36-disc box set of Dylan’s 1966 tour should sate those wanting to hear more

By Jonathan Zalman · October 19, 2016

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Can Agnon’s Goat Speak English?

Reading the great Hebrew writer in Toby Press’ translation to English, 50 years after his Nobel prize, brings his layered simplicity to a new and deserving audience

By Dara Horn · June 10, 2016

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Theater & Dance

All the Dirty Bits of Marcel Proust, by Harold Pinter

On stage, the English master of menace and the ponderous Frenchman find a common language in a feat of adaptation

By Liel Leibovitz · January 23, 2014

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Another Year, Another Man

The prize should have gone to Atwood or Lahiri—or, better yet, Munro

By Batya Ungar-Sargon · October 11, 2013

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How the King of Shmutz Won the World

This award proves, once and for all, that Roth isn’t too obscene. Nor is he too American, or too male, or too Jewish.

By Josh Lambert · October 11, 2013

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And So, He Won

Why Philip Roth shouldn’t have won the Nobel prize

By Liel Leibovitz · October 11, 2013

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Philip Roth, Master of Deception

The Nobel laureate chronicled the American Jewish Experience

By Adam Kirsch · October 11, 2013

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S.Y. Agnon Turns 125

Celebrating Israel’s only Nobel literature laureate

By Adam Chandler · July 17, 2013

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Dangling Men

Saul Bellow was a complicated father to his three sons. In a new book, the eldest tries to parse his inheritance.

By Richard Kreitner · May 17, 2013

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Mo Yan, Mo Translations

Talking with Howard Goldblatt, the Nobel laureate’s translator

By Adam Chandler · February 4, 2013

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Searching for I.B. Singer

A yearlong first encounter with the great Yiddish author who gave me my middle name

By John Lingan · December 31, 2012

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Mo Yan’s Jewish Interpreter

The D-student translator behind the Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

By Michael Orbach · December 10, 2012

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Nobel Literature Prize & Israeli Elections

What’s up? A follow-up to our round-up

By Adam Chandler · October 11, 2012