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Many were baffled or repelled by this unique sensibility--Ballard boasted for years that a publisher's reader had once described him as "beyond psychiatric help." Others were mesmerized. Critics came to rank him with Kafka, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, Jorge Luis Borges and William Burroughs.
Though the National Book Critics Circle Award carries no money, its posthumous awarding to Roberto Bolaño for his monster of a work, “2666,” raises a host of unsettling questions about the place of prizes, especially monetized prizes, in the world of letters...
2666 is not a novel that any responsible critic could describe with words like brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) That's not Bolaño's method. He's addicted to unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out...
Dance parties with people in animal suits cavorting about and rubbing hips can fall into two categories: alarmingly scary or mildly amusing. Throw weapons into that mix and you’ve either got a deranged Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise...
DIED. Jorge Luis Borges, 86, blind Argentine author of poetry and fiction, one of Latin America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent...