But as “Blood Meridian” expertly, though controversially illustrates, cruelty can serve a purpose in storytelling as long as it remains dedicated to a greater narrative aim. It is also important to ...

The devil has never been represented so well. Cormac McCarthy must have been having lunch dates with Satan himself to craft the character of Judge Holden in “Blood Meridian.” The book’s premise is the ...

While Blood Meridian is most prominently classifiable as a Western novel, it is also horrific (and violent) enough to qualify, at least in part, as a work of horror. Therefore, it’s not hard to ...

While Leonid meteor storms, which occur when Earth passes through a dense debris field from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, have occurred in the past, notably in 1966 and 2001, the next anticipated storm ...