To know what Saul Bellow thinks of cancel culture, read his work (or watch this film)
A new PBS documentary confronts what made the novelist so controversial — and so great
A new PBS documentary confronts what made the novelist so controversial — and so great
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who died on July 23 at age 88, was publicly proud of being an atheist. But he retained a Jewish structure to his thinking throughout his life. Weinberg received the Nobel for his innovations, building on the work of Albert Einstein, in helping to understand how the tiniest components…
On Dec. 7, newly-minted laureate Louise Glück delivered her Nobel acceptance speech outside of her Massachusetts home. In it, the poet expressed her lifelong interest in a kind of confessional poem, in which the speaker intimately addresses the reader. And in making her point, she lauded a work many found tone-deaf in the current climate,…
(JTA) — Jewish American economist Paul Milgrom will share the Nobel Prize in economics with American economist Robert Wilson for their work in auction theory, the the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday. The laureates’ theoretical discoveries in their studies of how auctions work have improved auctions in practice, according to the prize committee….
On October 8, the American poet Louise Glück became the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the fourth Jewish woman, following Nelly Sachs (1966), Nadime Gordimer (1991) and Elfriede Jelinek (2004). There’s much that separates Glück, whose work has long been known for its deceptive clarity, from her Jewish predecessors. She…
On Thursday the Swedish Academy will determine its newest Nobel Laureate in Literature. Until today, that precise conversation — had several years ago — was probably the last time anyone was comparing Joan Didion and Philip Roth’s literary legacies. Enter a new, viral TikTok where a young woman has claimed, “Philip Roth is Joan Didion…
With the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature just two days away, observers are busy speculating on potential winners. Among the favorites for the prize is Black Jewish author Jamaica Kincaid. Bjorn Wiman, culture editor of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, predicted to the Guardian that either Kincaid or the poet Anne Carson would…
(JTA) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists who identified the hepatitis C virus. The prize was awarded Monday to Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University. “The Nobel Laureates’ discovery of Hepatitis C virus is a…
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