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 ...

Blood Meridian People have been trying, for at least 20 years, to turn Cormac McCarthy’s Western opus Blood Meridian into a ...

Blood Meridian is set during the 19th century in Tennessee, and follows the experiences of an enigmatic protagonist known only as “the kid.” As America emerges from the Civil War era into ...