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Topic: Cormac McCarthy

US Senator and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance speaks during Turning Point Action's Chase the Vote campaign event at Generation Church in Mesa, Arizona, on September 4, 2024. (REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images)

Vance uses killer quote to explain Trump

Griffin Eckstein
Writer Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images)

Cormac McCarthy didn't write Westerns

Nick Hilden
Mike Pence and Paul Ryan applaud as Donald Trump arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives, February 28, 2017. (Reuters/Jim Lo Scalzo)

Growing my way out of dystopia

Frida Berrigan - TomDispatch.com
(Harlequin)

Emily Gould
Scott Haze in "Child of God"

Mud, death and James Franco

Andrew O'Hehir
James Franco (AP/Andy Kropa)

"I get to do what I want"

Gary M. Kramer
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-269074p1.html'>Keith Tarrier</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Prachi Gupta

The worst movie ever made

Andrew O'Hehir
Rachel Kushner

Michael Schapira - Full Stop
Kevin Powers

Critics go easy on war vets

Michael Larson
Scene still from "A Clockwork Orange"

When sci-fi went mainstream

Lee Konstantinou - LA Review of Books