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The 50 Best Southern Novels Ever Written
The American South has long been seen as the focus of the country’s Civil Rights Movement, carrying with it the stigma of poverty, racism, and anti-intellectualism. Yet the region has also produced a...
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Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
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Ranking Cormac McCarthy’s Greatest Books
Trailing Philip Roth by a few months and Toni Morrison by two years, Cormac McCarthy (who turns 81 this weekend) is one of America’s greatest and most decorated writers. His cultural stock has risen...
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50 Great Dark Books for the Dark Days of Winter
We’ve reached the time of year when the days seem impossibly short and the nights never ending. Good if you’re a vampire or like to go to sleep early, less exciting for the rest of us. So what is one...
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The Strange Case of Cormac McCarthy, Screenwriter
We rarely appraise our most revered literary writers on the basis of their screenwriting. The bald truth is that most great writers never wrote original screenplays, and when they did, they were seldom...
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The 50 Sexiest Literary Villains
In The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy, open-mouthed, says “I’ve never heard of a beautiful witch before,” Glinda famously quips that only bad witches are ugly. But ’tis not so — or at least, there are...
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25 Novels That Will Turn You Into an Environmentalist
Earth Day is upon us, and you know what that means: time to pick up the trash in your neighborhood, or hug a tree, or at least think a little bit about your carbon footprint. Not exactly your cup of...
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Cormac McCarthy Did Not Join Twitter, But He Is Writing a Science Novel
Fifty years after the publication of The Orchard Keeper, his first novel, Cormac McCarthy appears to be nearing the release of his 11th, the long-rumored The Passenger. Earlier this month, McCarthy...
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David Means’ ‘Hystopia’ is the Boldest Alternate History Novel in Years
In American narrative, we’re seeing a renewed craze for alternate histories and speculative fictions, those fraternal twins born to allegory and politics. On TV, both Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ingrid Bergman,’...
For the second week in a row, the new release shelf is a mighty grim place – I mean, there are bad weeks, and there are weeks where the biggest new titles on disc are The Angry Birds Movie and God’s...
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