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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the person to have last interviewed Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño before his death from liver failure in 2003, it’s fitting that Mónica Maristain should write his biography. In “Bolaño: A Biography ...

Roberto Bolaño haunts his English-speaking readership almost twice yearly. Translations of at least 10 books have appeared since his death of liver failure at age 50 in 2003. Many carry dust-jacket ...

Roberto Bolano, a high-school dropout who became one of Chile ‘ s most respected writers, died Tuesday. He was 50. Mr. Bolano, who had lived in Spain since 1977, died of liver disease in a Barcelona ...

Since The Savage Detectives came out last year to gaga acclaim, Roberto Bolaño has become America’s favorite new posthumous literary genius, appealing to an astonishingly broad demographic ...

There’s an apocryphal tale that on the day jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus died at 56 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 56 gray whales beached themselves on the local shores in tribute. True or not, the ...

One of our very favorite Bolaño moves — right up there with his knack for spinning crazy metaphors (“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower”) and casually tossing off life wisdom ...

[#image: /photos/55829570e52bc4b477a9a5e7]|||||In 2007, the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, who escaped imprisonment by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973, surprised American readers with the thrilling ...

A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup. Susan Sontag was not given to gushy praise, ...