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...Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and death—whose frame is the journal of the Mexican poet Juan García Madero. Madero is the disciple, devotee and faithful hanger-on of two older poets, Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego throughout his fiction) and Ulises Lima, who follows the pair through the Sonora Desert in flight from a violent pimp and his henchmen. The intervening chapters of the novel?...
...ones who weren’t teenagers had a youthful look, an aura of youthfulness and tragedy, whereas the members of the Mohammedan Brotherhood were grown men, broad shouldered with huge biceps, people who spent hours and hours at the gym, lifting weights, people born to be bodyguards, but whose bodyguards...
...Werhmacht on the apocalyptic Eastern Front to his haunting stay in a rest home for the demented—with a consciousness that remains totally opaque but for his books. But he’s more a symbol than a man: a silent, sage-like alien figure whose enigma never promises anything like life, let alone hope...
...Tuesday: the primaries for the Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56. On the Democratic side, there is one candidate who best seems to follow in the tradition of great representatives like Kennedy or O’Neill—whose congressional seat he now holds. This candidate is Michael E. Capuano, and we strongly endorse his candidacy for the Senate...
...spent significant time and resources here on campus, is Harvard’s favorite son. However, we actually find Khazei’s preoccupation with Harvard to be curious. In an election to represent all of Massachusetts, a candidate should probably not focus so much on a university whose students are largely not constituents...