Tracing Slavery’s Past Tracing Slavery’s Past

On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.

Mar 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Te-Ping Chen

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

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