William T. Vollmann

Jan 19, 2025 | fivebooks.com | Don DeLillo |Thomas Pynchon |William T. Vollmann |Richard Wright

recommended by Bernard T. Joy An exploration of the history of the United States may require novels that are challenging to read but offer the reward of really making you think about a complex subject. Literary scholar Bernard T. Joy talks us through five novels that explore U.S. history, from colonial times to the end of the 20th century. You’ve chosen five novels about the history of the United States. Can you explain what you mean by that, and what kind of books you were looking for?

Nov 6, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | William T. Vollmann

On 13 October 2024, I jaunted 20 minutes south down Interstate-5 to the Cosumnes Nature Preserve, whose toy swamp I used to visit with my parents and my daughter Lisa; they are all dead now, and so was my pleasure on that Sunday, thanks to a haze that looked merely dirty until I opened the car door and realised it was smoke again, more smoke, my eyes beginning to burn and my chest to ache: poor sad California! In recent years I sometimes wake up choking; is the house on fire?

Jul 15, 2024 | harpers.org | Sam Kestenbaum |William T. Vollmann |Ellyn Gaydos |Hisham Matar

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Jun 24, 2024 | harpers.org | William T. Vollmann

i. “the nightmare scenario”In January, Kim Jong-un, aka the “Respected Comrade,” declared South Korea an enemy state and formally turned down the prospect of reunification. Talking heads promptly deemed the situation on the Korean Peninsula more dangerous than at any time since the Korean War.

Oct 19, 2023 | harpers.org | Christopher Ketcham |William T. Vollmann |Alexander Sammon |Bela Shayevich

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