John Steinbeck, born 1914 in California, was a grandson of Samuel Hamilton of Mulkeeragh, Ballykelly. (Redoubtable Dougie Bartlett hosts the annual Limavady Steinbeck Festival). Did you know with ...

The timing of his speech at Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication on anti-fascist protest and activism is not lost on Daniele Salerno. Salerno gave the 2025 Zumkehr Prize Lecture on ...

South Korean writer Han Kang is set to release her first new book since receiving the Nobel Prize in literature ... takes its title from Han’s Nobel lecture, which she delivered at the Swedish ...

This is the 50th anniversary of Friedrich Hayek’s 1974 Nobel Prize Lecture, “The Pretense of Knowledge.” In his brilliant presentation, which applies particularly to central banks and their yearning ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes breakthroughs contributing to the emergence of a new understanding of the computations that underlie human intelligence, with profound implications for ...

Father John Misty, review: The eccentric star turns the Albert Hall into a church of rock Sexy, self-deprecating and with a voice that made the walls shake, Josh Tillman cemented his status as ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all ...

In their Nobel Prize speech, given four years after Franklin’s death, Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins failed to mention Franklin at all. The same was not true for Aaron Klug. She had ...

Ramakrishnan was recently in Italy, in Milan, where he gave a lecture at the second edition ... and probably much less dynamic and creative. The Nobel Prize-winning South American novelist Mario ...

John Lithgow interview: ‘They’re using free speech to stifle free speech. It’s crazy times’ The extraordinarily tall actor has had an extraordinary career playing Churchill, an alien and ...

In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend García Márquez, whom he later ridiculed as “Castro’s courtesan.” It was never ...