nobel prize in literature

Bob Dylan’s ‘The Nobel Lecture’ Requires a Tolerance for Sentimentality

Bob Dylan’s ‘The Nobel Lecture’ Requires a Tolerance for Sentimentality

Are Dylan's thoughts the dismissible ramblings of an insecure autodidact still trying to impress the professors?

Modiano’s ‘Villa Triste’ and the Dull Flâneur

Modiano’s ‘Villa Triste’ and the Dull Flâneur

The protagonist in Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste is a monomaniacal flâneur in world shrunk to a few predictable details.