It can recognize work that is quiet, difficult, explicit, experimental, but it can’t handle humor.Ĭan we take this in a more gossipy direction? Who shouldn’t have won? I was horrified to learn that not only did Churchill win in 1953, for his collected speeches, but that he was nominated for the literature prize 21 times. That’s the real blind spot of the Academy. The Academy likes writers who “renew” and refresh their native languages, so the omission of Joyce really perplexes me. The Nobel committee isn’t giving out a prize for literature this year, so the New York Times’s book critics sat down to hash out who should have won, who shouldn’t have won, and the merits and sins of the prize itself:.Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of September 16, 2018. Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects.
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