As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated? Critic’s Notebook As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the ...

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer Schuessler Thirty ...

Another big change for the UI's International Writing Program, with longtime director Christopher Merrill stepping down after ...

Recently, whenever I reference the titles of literary classics in my English courses, I am usually met with blank stares. Many college-age students have never read or studied these works of literature ...

Krasznahorkai’s language is the mad scream of a godless universe at our inexcusable squandering of every good thing given to ...

On Thursday, the Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded for the 118th time—and for the fourth since it was suspended in 2017 amid a rash of scandals involving sexual assault and gambling. The ...