In Bookforum, William T. Vollman meditates on what it means to be an American and also to disappear, if that’s possible anymore, or if it ever was. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales retail the now quaintly preposterous exploits of a self-sufficient woodsman who, with his loyal Chingachgook, adventures deep into near-virgin forest, where he does […]
Published on August 26, 2013 07:54