William T Vollmann

"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."—The Washington Post
The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians 
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every...

A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.... All these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death.

In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin...

A collection of the best travel writing published in 2019, selected by Alexandra Fuller.