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Yesterday — 12 October 2025Main stream

She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.

© Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

“When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases and exclamations, I always think — how many novels disappear without a trace!” the writer Svetlana Alexievich said.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

​The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”

© Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Laszlo Krasznahorkai is known for a prose style that captures confusion and paranoia.
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