After I read the gloomy obsessions of love or lust in the companion piece for this novel, in the briefer " Whores for Gloria " s...

For newcomers, this provides a 1996 odds and ends analogy to a musician's compilation of b-sides, demos, cuts that did not fit an LP, ...

This short (for Vollmann) novel displays a mood both frenetic and dispirited. Taking place as much of his early 1990s fiction in the realm...

Returning to the lands of ice and snow, this third-published (1994) if sixth in the series of Seven Dreams of the North American landscape...

This continues as the second of "Seven Dreams,"++ a septology projecting across North America the past millennium as envisioned ...

Taking place in 1982 and published in its original form a decade later, this account of a hapless pilgrim's progress feels doomed from...

T his collection's title, as Vollmann "explains" in an author's note, reverses itself. "These stories are all epita...

Appearing in 1991, this short novel conveys some of the stories Vollmann gathered during his time among the San Francisco Tenderloin, pre-...

After  "Europe Central" and " Imperial," I figured I was ready to return to begin this first installment of Vollmann...

This 1989 collection, his first, represents an early foray into a world he explored, in fiction set in San Francisco, especially the Tende...

When this debut novel appeared in 1988, Pynchon's "V." (world domination, reactionaries vs. revolutionaries, sinister techn...

Go iontach, thosaigh mé an mí Iúil ag caith mo seaicéad. Go nádurtha, mbeadh seo go hionduil anseo agus ansin i nÉireann. Ach, ní bhíonn s...

Seventeen stories alternate between an Irish boy raised in Derry whose family moves to Glasgow, and other tales, many about Irish people l...

Four characters, identified only by their occupations, spend the Swiss summer working, drinking, brooding, and sleeping. Around them, as t...

Hailed as the first “cubistic” history of anywhere, this award-winning Polish compendium presents Mariusz Szczygiel’s 2006 attempt to ma...