Sunday
October 10, 2021
Jonathan Franzen, America’s Next Top Moralist
For years, his work has been marked by his creeping fear that the world is in need of an urgent intervention—and why not from him?
by Maggie Doherty

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The films have always presented a more slick, evasive Bond than the often mundane spy in Ian Fleming’s novels.
by Jo Livingstone
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.
by Alex Shephard

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He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?
by Jeremy Lybarger
Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”
by Alex Shephard
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