As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolaño’s short stories is that they can do the “work of a novel.” The Return c...

"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolaño's narrators are usually writers grappl...

The Chilean poet and prose writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) lived only fifty years and, although he began publishing at forty, he managed to publish more th...

With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” A...

“I write to remember past stories and laugh at them or turn them into others, inventing a new ending,” admitted Roberto Bolaño. These words of the writer can...

“I write to remember past stories and laugh at them or turn them into others, inventing a new ending,” admitted Roberto Bolaño. These words of the writer can...

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers ...

A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Ur...

The Chilean poet and prose writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) lived only fifty years and, although he began publishing at forty, he managed to publish more th...

The Chilean poet and prose writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) lived only fifty years and, although he began publishing at forty, he managed to publish more th...

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel.The novel follows...

The Chilean poet and prose writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) lived only fifty years and, although he began publishing at forty, he managed to publish more th...