In late 2003, months after liver failure claimed the life of Roberto Bolaño (who, at the time, was awaiting a transplant), illustrious New York publisher New Directions released By Night in Chile in ...

It's a novel that's been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel prize-winning work. But it took the New York publishing world nearly a decade to discover the late ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. By Matt Dorfman Juan Villoro, who spent over two decades perfecting one book about ...

Who better than Chris Andrews, translator of 10 of Roberto Bolaño's books, to write the first big book of Bolaño literary criticism? Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe is an indispensable ...

In the long line for last night’s sold-out ALOUD conversation “The Making of the Great Bolaño: The Man and the Myth,” you could see at least one small sign of a revolution as nearly everyone was ...

This novel—the major work from Chilean-born novelist Bolaño \t\t (1953—2003) here beautifully translated by Wimmer—will allow English \t\t speaking readers to discover a truly great writer. In early ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Liesl Schillinger THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION By Roberto Bolaño Translated by Natasha Wimmer It ...

Mere weeks remain before the much-anticipated publication of Roberto Bolaño’s 912-page novel 2666. Andrew Wylie, the literary agent who was recruited by the late author’s widow last spring to take ...

This week’s fiction offering is “Prefiguration of Lalo Cura,” by Roberto Bolaño.” The late author’s translator, Chris Andrews, exchanged emails with Willing Davidson, an editor in the magazine’s ...

The exhilarating thing about reading The Savage Detectives, the book that made Roberto Bolaño the most celebrated Latin-American writer of the new century, was the feeling that Bolaño could and would ...

Two new novels by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño have reportedly been found in Spain among papers he left behind after his death. The previously unseen manuscripts were entitled Diorama and The ...

1. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the papers and personal effects of the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) exhibit “Bolaño Archive. 1977–2003,” ...