Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" has been one of the trickiest classic novels to adapt for the screen, but it now has a three-time Oscar nominee who may finally crack it. John Logan, the writer ...

But, when I read what many consider to be McCarthy’s finest novel, “Blood Meridian” (1985), I wondered, as Trilling once did about Dreiser, what exactly this author was appealing to in his audience.

Though the U.S. today possesses its fair share of violence — and many would argue the nation, and world as a whole, remains unnecessarily so — it is difficult to compare today’s landscape to that of ...

Even if you don’t do a whole lot of reading, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of Blood Meridian. It’s the most well-known Cormac McCarthy novel that’s yet to have a movie ...