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.
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Mar 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rosmarie Waldrop Professing Literature in 2008 Professing Literature in 2008Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers? Mar 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz Truth and Consequences Truth and ConsequencesWho'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 YouthExploring the unexpected: Chop Shop, Paranoid Park, Vantage Point. Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans Daring Intransigence Daring IntransigenceGustave 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 ShadowplaysIn 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 Two Angry Men Two Angry MenBeyond the sensationalism and the sound bites, the Duke rape case reveals the perils of unchecked prosecutorial power. Mar 4, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Perkinson The Stravinsky Shuffle The Stravinsky ShuffleWhy listen to Stravinksy in sequence when you can click shuffle on your iPod and rediscover the music anew? Feb 28, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff Patriot’s Inventory Patriot’s Inventory
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