All Things Rhapsodical

All Things Rhapsodical

The principles of Anton Chigurh

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Alexander Riley
Apr 29, 2022
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We just finished reading McCarthy’s _No Country for Old Men_ in one of my classes. (Yes, believe it or not, I do use some other books from time to time that were not written by him…).

Something very troubling happens every time we read this book.

Inevitably, there are students—not a majority, certainly, but more than I’m comfortable with—who come away ad…

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