Dune: Part Two and Paul’s struggle
The young Atreides is horrified by what becoming the Fremen messiah will mean
Aaron Gwyn
Aaron Gwyn is a short story author, novelist and an associate professor of English at University of North Carolina Charlotte.
Sunday
Tuesday
Killers of the Flower Moon captures the singular sensation of outside-ness
The movie is a hallucinatory masterpiece
Friday
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Thursday
The new Elon Musk biography lacks a clear vision
The best chapters of Walter Isaacson’s book recount last year’s Twitter takeover
Sunday
Oppenheimer’s passenger
Christopher Nolan and Cormac McCarthy’s fissile Westerns
Monday
Blood Meridian is Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece
It may be the Great American Novel critics have searched for
Wednesday
Cormac McCarthy is gone – but his works remain brilliantly alive
From our UK edition
Until yesterday afternoon, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (better known to readers as Cormac) was the greatest living American writer – many would say the greatest living writer, full stop. The heir to Melville, Twain, Flannery O’Connor and Faulkner, McCarthy published his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965 at the age of thirty-two. Set in rural
