Observations from the Slash Y

Western history and fiction publishers have had an outstanding year across all genres and categories. With the growth in electronic and aud...

“The movie has us re-examining the self-evident truths of America,” Thompson says, tackling subjects like poverty’s multi-generational stra...

On the New Western : In these circumstances, the Western managed to survive by parodying its own formula restrictions and distorting the c...

MJ:  You felt that  Lonesome Dove  was misinterpreted, that you'd intended it as an anti-Western. In what sense? LM:  Would you like ...

In 2013 James Mangold introduced a screening of the Shane , a movie that was a big influence on Logan. "The best Western films (and ...

Larry McMurtry vs. Cormac McCarthy

"As codified by Texas literary giants like Walter Prescott Webb and T. R. Fehrenbach, our quasi-religious history has often resembled ...

Really interesting paper from Susan Kollin *** If we take seriously Robinson's observations about the self-subversion o...

Heath Lowrance on weird westerns

American Sniper as revisionist western. Interesting take, just not sure I agree with it.

Ben Bridges top 50 westerns

Interesting. I don't necessarily like the "neo" term but agree with the sentiment. The Western genre, in many respects, liter...

Section from an article from the mid 80s frames the Western in class terms: "Like other literary genres, the western continues to ev...

Under Burning Skies: Best of 21st-Century Western Movies

Really interesting article: Lonely rangers: the dark side of westerns

HBO To Make Miniseries About Western U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves

“I think [the two genres] are both deeply connected to America’s ideas about itself, embodied in this figure of a lone American male as adve...

"Jericho, which has been called Britain’s first western, is based on the “frontier” community that emerged during the building of the R...

True West Magazine's best westerns of 2015

"For the most part, the best westerns are those that omit, or minimize, the origin stories. John Wayne made any number of westerns wher...