“WHY WOULD I not believe it?” was the plaintive cry of non-Nobel prize-winner John Banville, quoted in the Irish Times last weekend. Banville later emphasised that the joke was on the Swedish Academy rather than him in an effort to diminish his alacrity in believing the faintly ridiculous proposition that he had won the Nobel… Read more »
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