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Texas State’s Wittliff Collections touts ‘doubling’ of Cormac McCarthy archive
Read full article: Texas State’s Wittliff Collections touts ‘doubling’ of Cormac McCarthy archiveTexas State's Witliff Collections has doubled its archive of the late author Cormac McCarthy, whose searing, often brutal works garnered acclaim and several film adaptations.
For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre
Read full article: For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genreIn his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights.
Review: ‘The Counselor' is a thinking person's film
Read full article: Review: ‘The Counselor' is a thinking person's filmAlthough not for everyone, the intellectual thriller does have a similar tone to McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men." Scott's camera delights in the big-name cast as he affords them the opportunity to deliberately luxuriate over the sometimes too cerebral conversation. McCarthy's ever-present theme of the choices people make and the consequences their actions create is on red alert here. Michael Fassbinder is the unnamed counselor, a Texas attorney who gets caught up in a drug deal. The characters in "The Counselor" are genuinely unsavory, but what makes them interesting is their willingness to go as far as it takes to get their self-indulgent needs met.