Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
Windows Into the Night Windows Into the Night
The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes
A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee Democrats Bid a Fond Farewell to Mike Huckabee
Saying goodbye to the Republicans' funniest candidate.
Mar 12, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Professing Literature in 2008 Professing Literature in 2008
Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?
Mar 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Eulogy for an Independent Bookstore Eulogy for an Independent Bookstore
No chain stores or web sites can replace Dutton's in the hearts of the LA literati.
Mar 10, 2008 / Feature / Jessica Teich
Truth and Consequences Truth and Consequences
Who's more to blame in the Love and Consequences hoax: the faux ghetto girl or the credulous book editors and reviewers who so eagerly snapped up her story?
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander
Our Troubled Youth Our Troubled Youth
Exploring the unexpected: Chop Shop, Paranoid Park, Vantage Point.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Daring Intransigence Daring Intransigence
Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Shadowplays Shadowplays
In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon