High Noon, Unforgiven, and The Gunfighter are all among the greatest, genuinely perfect Western movies you need to watch right now.

Quentin Tarantino once said that The Wild Bunch was a perfect Western; however, he soon went back on the statement.

The question of whether or not to read works from the Western literary canon in high school and higher education curricula is a pressing issue that many teachers, administrators, parents, and students ...

“The Death of Socrates” (1787), by the artist Jacques-Louis David. (Photo by Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) In 399 BCE, when Socrates stood trial in Athens accused of impiety and ...

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation Klimts Make YUGE Bucks at Sotheby’s, and Are Maine’s Aggrieved Penobscots Happy to Let a Masterpiece Rot? Nuremberg in the Age of Lawfare A ...

The Catholic literary canon saved my faith—and, I believe, my sanity. I mean both these statements quite literally. In the crucible of past culture wars that rocked both my college years and my ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2025 issue. The opening pages of José Skinner’s new novel The Search Committee seem to promise readers a merciless academic satire set in Texas’ ...

BUFFALO — Local author Craig Johnson is this year’s recipient of a lifetime achievement award named for Western literary legend Owen Wister. The Western Writers of America recently announced that ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer and novelist who critiqued colonial rule as well as the post-colonial Kenyan government, died Wednesday in a hospital in Buford, Georgia. He was 87 years old. His ...