Cormac McCarthy

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed.

On Cormac McCarthy.

Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.