The Savage Detective
RODRIGO FRESÁN
For Roberto Bolaño, literature was basically a “dangerous profession,” the thing that plants itself “in the territory of risk.”
Souvenir: The Snow Globe
ANNE TRUBEK
On the Art of the Disappeared
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
After legal accountability reached the old regimes of Latin America, artists began addressing the cultural damage. Some notes on their success.
One-Page Reviews
Lara Tupper on Mischa Berlinksi, Idra Novey on Juan Goytisolo, Craig Morgan Teicher on Lynda Hull, Alan Gilbert on Nathaniel Mackey, Buzz Poole on Dennis Cooper, and John Domini on Alain Mabanckou
The Score
STEPHEN ELLIOTT
Between Theo van Gogh’s grisly murder and an ex-girlfriend’s triple-infidelity in the desert, there is a fractured life that makes sense.
The Kindness of Strangers
DAVY ROTHBART
How to inadvertently make a middle-aged businessman think you’re going to murder him.
History of a Repugnant Handicraft
HILLERY HUGG
What’s lost if medical students stop dissecting real human cadavers?
Pankaj Mishra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . interviewed by . . . . SARAH FAY
The invisibility of American suffering, the deep unpleasantness of airports, and why every American should read Naipaul.
Schema: A Compendium of Kircherian Inventions . . . . JOSHUA FOER
Joey Lauren Adams . . . . . . . . . . . interviewed by . . . . JACK PENDARVIS
Acting roles in Dazed and Confused and Chasing Amy have given way to
writing, directing, and chicken on a stick.
Eric Bogosian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . interviewed by . . . . JESSICA BLANK & ERIK JENSEN
Andy Kaufman, Sonic Youth, David Mamet, Shakespeare, Alan Rickman in Die Hard: a lifetime of influences.
Ruth Ozeki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . interviewed by . . . . MALENA WATROUS .
“Vegetables are filled with drama. Even the pea.”
