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...mute sister. Baxter’s characters are obliquely formed through third-party description, and their identities are further confused by paranoid and erratic actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul Thief,” the gaze of others constitutes one’s self-conception. The narration and structure reflect the confused identities of each character. From the opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes; at others we look down...
...Literature,” originally published in 1996, is the book that first established Bolaño as an important voice in Latin American literature, but Chris Andrews’ new translation arrives at the apex of Bolaño’s posthumous acclaim in the English-speaking world. The title of a 2007 New York Review of Books article says it all: “The Great Bolaño.” Yet it is here, away from the weight and reverence surrounding Bolaño’s best-known work, that his central concerns?...
...John Paul, aware of Fatima's earlier Russia prophecy and already in 1981 deeply engaged in his own fight against world communism, became convinced that he was the Bishop in white in the vision described by Lucia; that Our Lady had prophesied that he would be shot, but had then turned the path of the bullet at the last instant. In 1982, he made the first of several pilgrimages to Fatima. In 1990, he donated the near-fatal bullet to the shrine there, a gesture that sent fatimists into a renewed frenzy of speculation. In April of 2000, he resolved...
...Unlike other famous apparitions of Mary, such as the one at Lourdes, the Fatima message was focused less on holiness than on geopolitics. And in 1952, Lucia sent an even more dramatic "third secret" - rumored among millions of "fatimists" to predict a schism in church or even the world's end - which she sent to Rome in 1952, where three successive popes remained either indifferent, or ambivalent enough to keep it under wraps...
...TIME. In the book, Bertone seems relieved that all the Virgin's prophecies were now safely in the past tense, and could no longer be seen as portending the world's end: "It's all quite different from the massive carnage certain fevered brains like to imagine taking place," he writes. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger must have felt the same. In a "Theological Interpretation" that accompanied the publication of the third secret, he suggested that the Bishop in White could represent many popes, and put John Paul's personal pet interpretation as a question: "Was it not inevitable that...