His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of ...

In a rare glimpse into his literary influences, Stephen King unveiled a list of his top books, showcasing a fascinating mix ...

Cormac McCarthy wrote for 50 years on an Olivetti Lettera 32 he bought at a pawnshop in 1963. He never serviced it, just blew out the dust. Danielle Steel wrote 190 books on a 1946 Olympia called ...

Indeed, the American West is known for its general lawlessness and violence, and it is rare to find a novel that expresses such savagery as “Blood Meridian,” the work most consider author Cormac ...

What is it about the Wild West that keeps us coming back for more? Surely the popular appeal of the Western, on the page, on ...

Technology, uncertainty and an air of transient horror runs through this first part of a duology that captures the world ...

Movies are largely designed to entertain, but many of them are so despairing for so many different reasons that they're guaranteed to be a buzzkill.

A hi-fi system needs excellent resolution to dig up these details and exceptional low-level dynamic nuance to deliver the ...

draws frequent comparisons to Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” but the despairing winter chill that pervades the story is distinctly its own. Keegan’s short, bittersweet book is set in ...

The Prophet, a 70-year-old man who lives in a cabin just inside the Alabama border, has visions of the future.

Kevin Fellingham, principal architect at Kevin Fellingham Architects, and a former lecturer at Cambridge University, UCT and the School of Explorative Architecture, talks about House Hanson and ...