In the following generally positive review, Pool assesses the strengths and weaknesses of You Bright and Risen Angels.
In his inventive first novel, William T. Vollmann has given us fiction for the...
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In the following essay, Hooper favorably reviews Whores for Gloria and discusses Vollmann's approach to literature.
It could have been worse. In William Vollmann's novel, Whores for G...
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In the following excerpt, based on an interview with Vollmann, Coffey discusses Vollmann's works to date and the author's approach to writing and publishing.
"I'd say th...
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In the following largely positive review of An Afghanistan Picture Show, McGowan argues that the power of Vollmann's writing—which here concerns his trip to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan i...
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Bell is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review of Fathers and Crows, he extols Vollmann's ability to imbue historical writing with human poignancy.
Two saints p...
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A biographer, Kobak is the host of the BBC series The Art of Travel. In the following negative review of An Afghanistan Picture Show, she argues that Vollmann's attempt to help the mujahedeen, ...
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Moore is senior editor of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. In the following review of Fathers and Crows and An Afghanistan Picture Show, he discusses Vollmann's life and career and calls him...
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In the following review, Ulin, an editor and poet, offers a favorable assessment of Fathers and Crows.
Toward the end of William T. Vollmann's 1990 novel The Ice-Shirt—the first insta...
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In the following review, Thornton claims that the bulk of historical background material Vollmann includes in Fathers and Crows dilutes much of the novel's power.
William T. Vollmann'...
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In the following review of Fathers and Crows, Korn concludes that, despite certain problems, "the narrative grips."
[Fathers and Crows] is the second of William T. Vollmann's p...
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In the following review of Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs, Bush, a novelist, discusses the uneven quality of Vollmann's literary technique.
William T. Vollmann's new collectio...
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In the following review, Eder praises the wide range of themes and styles in The Rainbow Stories.
The rainbow in the title of this collection of pieces by William T. Vollmann refers to the author...
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McCaffery is an American editor, essayist, and nonfiction writer who has done extensive research into modern and postmodern literature. In the following interview, Vollmann discusses his career, autho...
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In the following review of Butterfly Stories, Ryman, a novelist, praises Vollmann for his frequently beautiful writing, but faults him for being manipulative and at times disingenuous.
William T. V...
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In the following essay, Bell discusses Vollmann's life and career, focusing on his often dangerous methods of research into street life, prostitution, and war.
Most likely you would not look...
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Birkerts is an American critic and educator who has won numerous awards and grants for his essays on literature. In the following review of Butterfly Stories, he praises Vollmann's evocation of...
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In the following review, Krist remarks unfavorably on Butterfly Stories, arguing that Vollmann's overarching cynicism and contempt for the protagonist is unrelieved by brief moments of beautifu...
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In the following review of The Rainbow Stories, Clute criticizes Vollmann for the cluttered, "overwritten" quality of the work, claiming that it obscures the merits of many of the storie...
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In the following mixed review of The Rainbow Stories, James compares Vollmann's literary technique and ambitions to those of Tom Wolfe and Thomas Pynchon, arguing that the stories in this colle...
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In the following review, Hawthorne commends the surreal nature of Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs.
William T. Vollmann is not the first writer to declare that words are cold and dead, though...
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'Tis the season for budding talent-just ask Jonathan Safran Foer, whose second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin), can't be far off and won't be quietly received: The ado...
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