Natasha Wimmer

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and 2666.

A Domestic Existentialist

September 16, 2009

Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Puttin' on the Glitz

May 20, 2009

Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.

2008

Credenzas of Fragmentation

October 8, 2008

In António Lobo Antunes's new novel, a lost boy despairs of finding a real family in the wasteland of his past.

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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