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SOURCE: The Nation
6/21/2023
Cormac McCarthy's Brutal Allegories of the American Empire
by Greg Grandin
"McCarthy demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
2/9/2022
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy as an American Historian
by Bennett Parten
"One of the most striking things about reading Blood Meridian now, almost 40 years since its release, is that it anticipates some of the major historical turns of the past decades."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/28/2021
The Lie at the Heart of the Western
New novels disrupt the stories of white heroism at the heart of the Western genre and grapple with the multiethnic, violent, and exploitative history of the continent.
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