"I did think of it all on my own."

Jack Andraka, age 15. Watch him get the $75,000 Intel prize... ... and don't click off before you get to the part where he explains — wi...

The "Slumdog Millionaire" scenario...

... plays out in real life.

"Does this writer's capacity for language expand my capacity to think and to feel?"

The test — proposed by Jeanette Winterson — for what counts as literature . We are nervous about anything that seems elitist or inaccessible...

Feminist on a panel that chooses winners of the Man Booker International prize withdraws when the panel picks Philip Roth.

The Guardian reports on the sensibilities of Camern Callil: Dismissing the Pulitzer prize-winning author, Callil said that "he goes on ...

Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize for economics.

Interesting ... to see such a prominent political commentator win. Mr. Krugman received the award for his work on international trade and e...

"Le Clézio stood out as an ecologically engaged author."

What it takes to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature."

"That ignorance is restraining." Speaking of ignorance, can we ignore them? *** Relatedly, I just noticed I don't have a tag f...

Oscar nominations — in a few moments.

Are you excited? Vaguely interested? Actively hostile? UPDATE: The whole list should be here soon. I'll just say that I loved Julie Ch...

100 geniuses.

"The top 100 features not just brainiacs and boffins, but 19 musicians, two artists (Damien Hirst and the illustrator Robert Crumb) and...