I recently listened to the audiobook of Kim by Rudyard Kipling as part of my Nobel literature project. Kipling won the prize in 1907, so he is currently the earliest Nobel laureate I have read. I think I read The Jungle Book and Just So Stories as a kid (or had them read to me), but this was my first time reading Kipling as an adult. I had se [...]

I’ve been trying to read more poetry, and I happened to read Louise Glück’s collection The Wild Iris shortly before she won the Nobel Prize in literature this year. I don’t feel qualified to write anything about poetry. I don’t know a lot about poetry, so I often feel like I’m missing references and things about [...]