‘Colonialism Is a Kind of Theft,’ says Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Persistence of Growth

Democracy has served India well as shown by the three economists who won this year’s Nobel

Kultural Revolution

South Korea as a cultural superpower

Han Kang: Sublime and Subversive

The new Nobel laureate in literature plumbs the fears and fragility of the human soul with such wicked relish

The Godfather of AI

Jon Fosse: Master of Mystic Realism

The Norwegian author wins the Nobel Prize in literature for his linguistic inventiveness

Nobel for Pioneers in Covid Vaccine

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Ben Bernanke: The Experimenter

The new Nobel laureate in economics kept the system afloat when investment banks collapsed in 2008

Svante Pääbo: DNA Hunter

The palaeogeneticist who won the Nobel overturned ideas about our ancient past

Annie Ernaux: The Master Memoirist

For Annie Enraux, the new Nobel laureate in literature, the family narrative carries the biggest social story