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“The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader” (1931) by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, in Selected Non-Fictions , edited ...

84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff (Penguin Books, 1990) The movie adaptation of 84, Charing Cross Road , which starred Ann...

Many modern novelists, at one time or another, have felt that storytelling is a tedious obligation, a regrettable concession to popular ta...

Mexico, 1975. We are reading the diary entries of one Juan García Madero, 17 years old, law student, budding poet, and frequent attendee to...

José Carlos Somoza's The Athenian Murders is turning out to be a detective novel of wit. A whodunit forged in pale fire. Caustic humor ...

For details, see Bifurcaria bifurcata and Caravana de recuerdos . Just leave a comment to join. Every book in the worl...

Roberto Bolaño's fame as a major novelist in the Spanish language shot up in 1998 after the publication of The Savage Detectives and a...

31. I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans were fighting ...

We play at believing ourselves immortal. We delude ourselves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the work...

An online-only excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's essay “Neuman, Touched by Grace” in Between Parentheses (2011, tr. Natasha Wimmer). http...

I've added the link to the poem " Ernesto Cardenal and I " to " A guide to online writings of Roberto Bolaño ." I so...

Of course, the well-read and opinionated Bolaño has certain opinions of Vargas Llosa. When asked about what comes to his mind when he hears ...

(Updated Aug. 2013) This is a compilation of the links to Roberto Bolaño’s writing that were made available online. The works are limited ...

Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico is the latest book I've read and I'm still constructing my thoughts about it. It's a bad b...

The August issue of Harper's contains an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's " Literature + Illness = Illness ," an essay colle...

It’s strange returning to Chile, the corridor country, but if you think about it twice or even three times, returning anywhere is strange....

Short-cropped curly hair. Elongated, triangular face. Bushy brows. Eyeglasses. A cigarette. Near the lips. About to blow. Telltale signs tha...