Some of the late fiction writer’s most beloved works have been adapted over the years, but perhaps his best novel, Blood ...

In "Blood Meridian," Cormac McCarthy brings the same desolate aesthetic to the U.S.−Mexican border in the mid−19th century. The book follows a group of American scalp hunters in their efforts to ...

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 ...

The latter essay proves to be McCarthy's primary source for the concept of optical democracy in Blood Meridian. McCarthy's reflection of Ortega's optical democracy challenges the idea that McCarthy ...

On the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, a 14-year-old Tennesseean nicknamed The Kid stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

"He stood out - he jutted out from the literary landscape like a monolith." Blood Meridian, McCarthy's 1985 dark epic set in the American West in the mid-19th Century, was his "masterpiece ...