Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

by | Aug 11, 2024

The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
An Unsettling Sense of Justice

An Unsettling Sense of Justice

by | Feb 18, 2024

A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall.  Livingston Press, 2023.  Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...
A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost

A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost

by | May 28, 2023

The Morning Star: A Novel By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Martin Aitken. Penguin Books, 2021. Paperback, 688 pages, $19. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald. In “Feodor’s Guide,” David Foster Wallace’s 1996 review of Joseph Frank’s four-volume biography of Dostoevsky,...