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In Norman Maclean’s Life, There Was No Clear Line between Beauty and Tragedy

McCarthy's biography of Norman Maclean is a splendid addition for the Macleanophile.
November 20, 2025

The Falconer

A skeptic’s take on such a variety of experience would chalk it up as privileged gonzo larkishness or chest-beating thrill-seeking—an understandable take, one likely partly true. But there was more…
December 4, 2023

No Pawn in the Game: Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, and the Struggle for Human Rights

Like Bob Dylan, Hamer’s life was marked by protest and songs of protest. Her protests, however, grew from her personal experience on the ground in Mississippi. Kate Clifford Larson’s Walk…