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Blood Meridian is brutal—but the truth behind it is even worse. The Glanton Gang were real mercenaries who hunted scalps, slaughtered indiscriminately, and left a trail of horror across the borderland ...

It took Cormac McCarthy a decade to write “Blood Meridian.” Mr. McCarthy, who died at age 89 on Tuesday, pursued this bleak western with the same obsessiveness that he did all his writing, moving to ...

Though the U.S. today possesses its fair share of violence — and many would argue the nation, and world as a whole, remains unnecessarily so — it is difficult to compare today’s landscape to that of ...

It takes a true genius to find beauty in utter tragedy. In "The Inferno," Dante rendered a sweeping, breathing Hell that glowed with a beauty that stood at odds with the suffering it contained. In ...