The Bolaño Syllabus, Updated 6

With a new title appearing practically every quarter, where should a Bolañophile turn first?

The Bolaño Myth and the Backlash Cycle 10

If a Bolaño backlash materializes, it will mark a revolt not against his books, but against a particular narrative being spun about them. With a tendentious but seductive account of the experience The Savage Detectives offers U.S. readers, "Bolaño Inc." provides the perfect cover story for those who can't be bothered to do the reading.

A Bolaño Syllabus 16

To help acclimate newcomers to this odd and essential author; to continue mapping the Bolañoverse, as Malcolm Cowley mapped Yoknapatawpha; and to impose some order on the flood of Bolaño releases, The Millions offers a syllabus.

Surrealpolitik: A Review of Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness and Francisco Goldman's The Art of Political Murder 1

A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg 4

Cower, Hounds!: A Review of Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas 1

A Year in Reading: Laurie 2