You’re perusing Dispatch Culture, our weekend briefing on American culture, featuring essays, staff picks, book reviews, and more.
Happy Saturday!
On this eerie day, we offer what I’d call a fitting American Artifacts piece: Sam Buntz, a Chicago-based writer, weighs in on a new biography of Cormac McCarthy, whose novels, according to Buntz, lay evil bare before the reader. How did a man of ordinary beginnings come to shape some of America’s most striking stories?
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