Lemurian Congress

I am reading William T. Vollmann's second-latest enormous book -- " Imperial " -- and I came across this apt, wonderful, and t...

Ever since I've moved away from my parent's house, I've lived either in grotty student housing, behind a controlled-access entry...

We set the closing date for my condo to be really far in the future, because one of my RRSPs was stuck like Pooh in Piglet's door. That ...

I've just finished reading William T. Vollmann's " Poor People ." This comes at a good time, because Kitchener/Waterloo...

William T. Vollmann's novel "The Rifles" is about John Franklin's northwest passage expedition. Except that John Frankli...

Samuel de Champlain (known to the Huron -- or "Wendat" -- as "Chawain") speaks to the Huron through Étienne Brûlé, his i...

"Fathers and Crows" is a rich book, but one of its greatest pleasures is watching "Savages" and Frenchmen try to underst...

Hot on the heels of the book on polar exploration (appropriately called "Ice"), I had a yen to re-read William T. Vollmann's ...

A magazine sent Vollmann to Littleton after the school shooting. The article he wrote is mostly about the "vultures": the media wh...

Having reached volume 6 of William T. Vollmann's "Rising Up and Rising Down" I find myself awfully tired. Vollmann's work ...

After Vollmann's novellas about Cambodia (where all bad things are "just politics" and he manages to rescue a 12-year-old pros...

By nature of the topics he writes about, William T. Vollmann rarely sustains a "happy tone" throughout his writing. His work tends...

Before reading William T. Vollmann's "Rising Up and Rising Down," the geography and politics of the far east (Cambodia, Laos, ...

For the last month or so I've been quickly -- but diligently -- making my way through William T. Vollmann's seven-volume opus, ...

During these overturned weeks, immersed in moving and holidays and endless work stuff, I've been plowing through a few books to help kee...

Surprise! No internet. Bell says it SHOULD be fixed tomorrow sometime, but the person I spoke to was quick to say there were no guarantees. ...

On Friday night -- hearing that I would be without heat until at least Monday -- Vanilla took me on a whirlwind tour of the city's forem...