Erik Maza on new(ly translated) Bolaño
“The Skating Rink is beginner’s Roberto Bolaño: there are no six-page sentences … or jeremiads against Octavio Paz.”
“The Skating Rink is beginner’s Roberto Bolaño: there are no six-page sentences … or jeremiads against Octavio Paz.”
“An author is sometimes surprised by what he or she has written.” The great Alan Bennett on his new play about W.H. Auden.
Cartoon controversy: for two days last week, Morocco blocked distribution of French daily Le Monde. (Via.)
The Center for Applied Linguistics houses 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. (Via.)