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NYT Books and Literature

Books Our Editors Love This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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NYT Books and Literature

Books Our Editors Love This Week

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Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Canadian Poet Anne Carson

The poet and essayist joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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NYT Books and Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Canadian Poet Anne Carson

NYT Books and Literature

Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet

Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.

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NYT Books and Literature

Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet

NYT Books and Literature

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

1 hour ago

NYT Books and Literature

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

NYT Books and Literature

New to Anne Carson’s Books? Start Here.

The Canadian poet won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. If you’ve never read any of her work, here’s where to start.

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NYT Books and Literature

New to Anne Carson’s Books? Start Here.

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That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages

Welcome to the postliterate era.

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NYT Books and Literature

That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages