Bolaño

The history of free trade in Latin America must be understood as a history of violence: violence committed by the Global North against targeted governments in the form of coups, forcible underdevelopment, and wealth-sapping structural adjustment policies; violence against these countries’ self-sustaining rural economies and the livelihoods of their urban…

There is a world beyond the pages of the books we read. Not the one we live in, but the one unrendered, yet presupposed, by great novels and novelists. Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) can uncontroversially be described as a great novelist who wrote great novels. …