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Novaya Gazeta’s Nobel Prize

Maria Ressa, an investigative journalist from the Philippines, and Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, have been jointly awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. AP comments: Considering how critical Novaya Gazeta has been toward Putin and his government, Peskov’s [Putin’s…

La bontà in trionfo

Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction gets reviewed in literary journals, awarded literary prizes and included in Top 100 Best Novels lists. It means that – after Alexievich (documentary non-fiction) and Dylan (song lyrics) – we’re back to the world of novels and…

It’s poetry all right

Consider the following statements. Thelonious Monk was a musician. Bob Dylan is a musician. Technically, (2) as true as (1) as long as a person who makes a living singing songs and playing a musical instrument is a musician. On the…

If Dylan, then Morrissey

Some people are asking, “Why not Philip Roth? Why not Leonard Cohen?” Well, for some reason Stockholm doesn’t like Roth. It’s almost as if they had agreed to strike him off the list for good. Cohen is Canadian. Alice Munro…