Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »

There’s a new development that has crept into coverage of the Nobel Prize for Literature in recent years: after the announcement and then the round of explainers has come interviews… Read more »

Tomas Tranströmer received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature in a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. According to The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, “On the menu, which was—as… Read more »