A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.

Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma ...

Harris, the author of numerous works of historical fiction including “Fatherland” and “An Officer and a Spy,” sets his latest ...

The Korea Times celebrated its 55th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards to recognize aspiring translators, which ...

Publishers Weekly recently printed an issue with their best fiction and nonfiction of 2024 by genre. The following are some that seem the most compelling and may make it to ...

About a month after turning 100 years old, former President Jimmy Carter received his 10th Grammy Award nomination for his ...

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Leon Cooper, who has died aged 94, shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with his fellow Americans John Bardeen and John Schrieffer for their development of a theory, known as the Bardeen-Cooper ...

The technology-enabled resurrection of the dead poet was part of a novel experiment by Off Radio ... A.I. to fake an interview with the dead Nobel Prize winner had left him speechless.

Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.

Robinson join the ranks of Nobel Laureates as the winners of the 2024 prize. What makes one nation prosper while ... For those familiar with their groundbreaking book Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and ...

This isn’t the first time Nobel Prize winners have weighed in on the 2024 presidential election. Joseph Stiglitz, who won the award in 2001, led this petition as well as another one published in ...