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“Many statues celebrate people who are not – it seems to me – worth celebrating.”

Long before he won a Nobel Prize, this author lugged bodies around in a hospital

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial historical figures.

  • Benjamin Law

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Trump’s Nobel quest means 30 more wars to ‘deal’

Readers muse on Donald Trump’s real estate-informed approach to global diplomacy.

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

From a complete unknown to a revolutionary

Bob Dylan has re-entered popular culture 60 years after first doing so, care of Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

  • Warwick McFadyen
A scene from a 1970 re-enactment of Captain Cook’s landing at Kurnell, NSW

Why is Australia so rich? This Nobel-winning paper solves the riddle

It might not feel like it, given recent interest rate jumps and a rising cost of living, but we live in a very rich country.

  • Liam Mannix
The ‘alarm centre’ of the brain, the amygdala (highlighted in red) is larger in conservative people.

Left- and right-wing brains are wired differently. Can that gap be bridged?

Research has found conservatives have more grey matter in their amygdala, which processes fear, while left-wing liberals have a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty.

  • Angus Dalton
Doves fly over the Peace Statue during a ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on August 9, 2022.

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese organisation of atomic bombing survivors Nihon Hidankyo

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapon is under pressure.”

  • Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros
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Author Han kang has won the Nobel Prize.

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman to win the Nobel literature prize.

  • Daniel Niemann, Jill Lawless and Mike Corder

How Epstein wheedled his way into Bill Gates’ world – and why Melinda hated it

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder took a reputational hit from his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Anupreeta Das
Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.

The Nobel Prize winning banker tasked with leading his country out of chaos

Student leaders who organised the protests in Bangladesh have wanted Muhammad Yunus to lead an interim government.

  • Sheikh Saaliq and Julhas Alam
Jon Fosse’s A Shining is replete with religious symbolism.

What have the Simpsons got to do with a Nobel laureate’s latest novel?

A strange presence in Jon Fosse’s latest short novel is a tantalising invitation to curiosity and doubt.

  • Bram Presser

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