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The streak is broken. This week, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded its prize in literature to an American writer for the first time since Toni Morrison in 1993. It was not Philip Roth, who has long been presumed to be the most deserving and inevitable choice if the Swedes could ever get over their vague and genteel distaste for the United States or Jews or sex. No, instead it was another near-contemporary with an identical background, albeit one whose ancestors wound up not in the crammed ethnic enclaves of post-war New Jersey but the frozen farmland of the upper Midwest.
His name is Bob Dylan. Perhaps you’re heard of him.
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