In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary.
By Allen Barra Nov 27, 2007
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Trumbo's antiwar parable, Maddin's gorgeous weirdness, a children's film by Tarkovsky, arty French erotica, more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 28, 2009
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Brad and Angelina walk Cannes' red carpet for "A Mighty Heart." Plus: More tales of existential angst from the Coens and Gus Van Sant.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 21, 2007
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I left my heart in Williamsburg, though I'm secretly a nerd.
By Cary Tennis
April 12, 2007
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This state's beauty and brutality are reflected in its literature, from the chronicle of explorer Cabeza de Vaca to Cormac McCarthy's masterly westerns to a history of the atomic bomb.
By Philip Connors
July 17, 2006
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The lord of horses and cowboys follows a modern-day Texas manhunt -- and a botched drug deal -- in this hard-boiled cinematic thriller.
By Ira Boudway
August 24, 2005
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Brad Pitt reads from Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel
April 17, 2001
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Billy Bob Thornton returns with a much-too-faithful take on one of the more successful literary snow jobs of our time.
By Charles Taylor
December 25, 2000
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The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
By Mary Gaitskill
November 15, 1999
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A book jacket has a case of déjà vu; Iowa defends its writers.
By -- Craig Offman
April 26, 1999
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The boredom trilogy: The scenery chews itself in 'The Hi-Lo Country,' director Stephen Frears' laconic throwback to '70s Westerns.
By Charles Taylor
January 4, 1999
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Vince Passaro on Cormac McCarthy's 'Cities of the Plain,' conclusion to the trilogy of novels that began with National Book Award winner, 'All the Pretty Horses'
By Vince Passaro
May 20, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
By David Bowman
April 10, 1998
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WITH THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, CHARLES FRAZIER WINS -- AND SO DO BOOK COLLECTORS.
BY DWIGHT GARNER
November 20, 1997
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A map to the online homes of the literary stars.
By Dwight Garner
May 23, 1997
How the West was lost
Still more DVDs you should have seen (but didn't)
Beyond the Multiplex
I'm obsessed with being a hipster
Destination: New Mexico
"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
"All the Pretty Horses"
"All the Pretty Horses"
Broadsheet
War Room
Glenn Greenwald