Unpublished Newswire

Toronto model Miriam Mattova says she has received death threats on social media since coming forward about an antisemitic incident involving an Uber driver last month. “It affects me emotionally and psychologically, and it forces me to become more cautious in my daily life,” she told National Post. “When you see what has happened recently in Sydney or at (Brown) University this week, it becomes impossible to dismiss these threats…These incidents show us exactly where unchecked hate and intimidation can lead.” On Sunday, 15 people in Australia...

Every October, when the Nobel Prizes are announced, readers receive a gift: we are reminded that literature is vast—vaster than empires, to coin a phrase. Chances are, the laureate for literature will be—at least for English-speaking readers—foreign in every sense. Even ardent book lovers might concede that they haven’t kept up with Elfriede Jelinek of Austria or Jon Fosse of Norway. How many of us were saving this year’s winner, Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, for an especially rainy day? (And how many are pretending we knew his name all along?) True, no one can read everything...