Chapter & Verse: Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy stripped the romance from the American frontier and replaced it with a biblical, blood-soaked reckoning. The table wrestles with whether Judge Holden is an ancient demon or merely humanity's worst impulses taken to their logical conclusion, while marveling at sentences that gallop like a cavalry charge. It is an unflinching look at an anti-western that leaves no myth standing and offers no apologies for the dust in your teeth.