The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat, the new head of the foundation that oversees the honours has warned.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel since winning the biggest prize in literature revisits an injustice from his Tanzanian ...

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Theater productions from Chile, Germany, and Romania will be showcased in the upcoming International Theatre Season 2025, a ...

Our cultural romanticists tend to celebrate the early 1980s as this nation’s Warholean 15 minutes of 20th-century fame, with ...

This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...

Dramatists Play Service has announced the addition of McNeal, the bold and thought-provoking new play by Pulitzer ...