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...Archimboldi, who up until now had diminished from the novel entirely. Instead of a faithfully causal chain of events (which Bolaño already showed signs of eschewing in “The Savage Detectives,” and even earlier in “Nazi Literature in the Americas??), “2666” plots the five circles of a sort of literary hell. Beginning with criticism, then academia, journalism, police detection, and finally fiction, the structure of the novel represents a cycle of inexplicable death and rebirth that’s as close...
...will become Bolaño’s signature, but at this early stage in his career it isn’t yet totally effective; it never transcends its context (as it will as early as his next novel, the highly experimental “Nazi Literature in the Americas??), so much as justifies it. “2666” will comprise context that itself is transcendent, but that masterpiece is still over a decade away.The novel excels in other, albeit minor places. There are moments of startling insight, however distracted it may be?...
...Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas?? high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well as the gun violence that plagues the black community, on rap, declaring: “You’re damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role...
...face of such views, someone like John Edwards might find his “Two Americas?? speech falling on the ears of an embittered few, and not the sanguine many. Candidates are better off stressing future opportunities than past injustices. Many in the struggling middle class will be listening, for they are facing the following choice: trust the government to help them get ahead, or try “The Secret”? For better or worse, candidates will have to acknowledge that there is a strong tradition in America to opt for the latter...
...Ezzati. Asian-American women from Bergen County, N.J., have the highest national life expectancy—91 years—while Native Americans from South Dakota can expect to live only 58 years. Just two years after Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards spoke of “two Americas??—haves and have-nots—the study suggests that there are in fact “eight Americas?? divided by race, class, and geography. One of the eight Americas, the 10 million Asians living in the country, “have...