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Frida's Bed, by Slavenka Drakulic, translated from the Croatian by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric. Penguin, August 2008. $13 paper
Drakulic's intensely intimate portrait of Frida Kahlo defies easy classification. Billed as a novel, it alternates between biography, diary, and art criticism. Third-person passages provide biography while subjectively speculating on Kahlo's thoughts at various points in her life. These sections alternate with...