Books and Ideas

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

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

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

Unsettling Thought Unsettling Thought

An undisclosed plan in an undisclosed location.

Mar 5, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Faith of Roosevelt The Faith of Roosevelt

"To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to 'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our civilization'...would be to transform America."

Mar 4, 2008 / The Editors

Roosevelt to Appoint First-Ever Female Cabinet Member Roosevelt to Appoint First-Ever Female Cabinet Member

"Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the f...

Mar 4, 2008 / Oswald Garrison Villard

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