Cormac McCarthy’s Historical Literary Influences
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds By Bryan Giemza. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 184 pages, $100. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. Works of scholarship on art, literature, or poetry can take multiple forms. One form might be scholarship...
Every Mann
Thomas Mann: New and Selected Stories By Thomas Mann. Translated by Damion Searls. Liveright, 2023. Hardcover, 256 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Thomas Mann towers intimidatingly over the twentieth century’s literary landscape, not least because “the icy...
The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Brent Walter Cline. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. At the end of Cormac McCarthy’s last novel, the main character Alicia...
The Law for Man and the Law for Thing: The Political Theory of Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Michael P. Federici. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. Few fiction writers achieve the critical and commercial success that marks...
"A more than occasional glutton for punishment, Field dips into and out of conservative conferences, the better to enable herself to assert herself into this story. No doubt those on the left will be mostly pleased by what they read in these pages, while those on the right will
[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of