Roberto Bolano did not live to see his book “2666” become an American bestseller. Nor did he make it to the popularization of e-books -- he died 10 years ago, on May 15, 2003. On Tuesday, “2666” saw ...

There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaño than Bolaño himself, which is a shame because he’s dead. At the time of his death, in 2003, Bolaño ...

'2666': What books took you forever?But I do enjoy 2666. There are whole pages of it that I want to memorize. Heck, 2666 makes me want to learn Spanish, just so I can read Bolaño’s original language.

One of the many plot lines in Roberto Bolaño's posthumously published novel 2666 concerns a secretive German writer named Benno von Archimboldi. Not much is known about Archimboldi, whose improbable ...

I’m lucky in my job in that I get a lot of free books. So when I actually buy a book, it’s a big deal. And that’s what happened in March of 2007, after I read Daniel Zalewski’s essay on Roberto Bolaño ...

It's part of the rhythm of our self-absorbed American culture that we seem able to process only one foreign language writer at time. But when we do, we do it with a vengeance. And so, every three or ...

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 ...

First published in Spain in 2004, a year after the author's death, '2666' appeared in English translation four years later. It is, among other things,a Russian war epic; an American reporter's ...

Roberto Bolano did not live to see his book “2666” become an American bestseller. Nor did he make it to the popularization of e-books -- he died 10 years ago, on May 15, 2003. On Tuesday, “2666” saw ...

I took a pause from “2666” yesterday. I’ve learned to be careful with big books: when I was fourteen, I read “Atlas Shrugged” in one gulp of a day, and came to my senses in the middle of the night, ...