Book

Blood Meridian

The Evening Redness

Cormac McCarthy

1985

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Comparison

Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on June 21, 2023
Book Review

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.

by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 9, 2022

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When the Frontier Becomes the Wall

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

by Francisco Cantú via The New Yorker on March 4, 2019

Painting of cavalry with swords drawn heading into U.S.-Mexico War battle.

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

by Greg Grandin via Boston Review on January 9, 2019

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