The Nobel Prize Site Is Really Really Weird

— Alice Munro, “Royal Beatings,” March 14, 1977, The New Yorker. At 82, she is the 13th woman winner of 106 Nobel prizes in literature.

But yes yay and all that but ALSO CAN WE POINT OUT that the Nobel Prize site is insane? FOR INSTANCE:

Nobody’s going to win a Nobel Prize for website copywriting on this one. There’s a lot of “tell us in the comments about your feels!” (yes: “Have your say and tell us what you think about the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature!”) and also a MOST POPULAR LAUREATES LIST??? Maybe it’s just foreign, let’s live with that. (But c’mon: “How Do You Find Authors Worthy a Literature Prize?” is an actual headline on the site?)