Archive - THE NIGHT DOES NOT END

A Cowboy's Guide to All the Pretty Horses

Notes on Cormac McCarthy's Contemporary Western

Jun 4 •

April 2025

How to Read Finnegans Wake

Some Notes for Would-Be Readers of Joyce's Novel

Apr 16 •

Anatomy of a Paragraph: Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

Apr 13 •

March 2025

No Country for Old Men

With Special Guest Ben Avery

Mar 15 •

1:34:05

November 2024

Cormac McCarthy's Gnostic Conservatism

The Cosmic Politics of Cormac McCarthy

Nov 23, 2024 •

September 2024

Lecture on Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses

https://youtu.be/LzHMktzdHro?si=Dpfye2IJqUiVLIK1

Sep 18, 2024 •

July 2024

John Hillcoat's Blood Meridian

Some Thoughts on the Forthcoming Film Adaptation

Jul 8, 2024 •

April 2024

On Teaching Blood Meridian

Twenty Years of Teaching McCarthy's Masterpiece

Apr 19, 2024 •

March 2024

The Map of Blood Meridian

The Kid's Journey

Mar 4, 2024 •

September 2023

Annotations to Blood Meridian: Chapter V

[58] “Bolson de Mapimi”—from Wikipedia: “an internal drainage, basin in which no rivers or streams drain to the sea, but rather toward the center of the…

Sep 16, 2023 •

August 2023

Annotations to Blood Meridian: Chapter IV

[44] “filibusters”—in this context, a mercenary adventurer, generally paid in spoils of war.

Aug 8, 2023 •

July 2023

Annotations to Blood Meridian: Chapter III

[31] “the war’s over”—the Mexican-American War (1846-48) which ended the year before this scene between the Sergeant and the Kid.

Jul 20, 2023 •

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