Values and structure in the Orchard keeper / David Paul Ragan -- A thing against which time will not prevail: pastoral and history in Cormac McCarthy's south / John M. Grammer -- Naming, knowing and nothingness: McCarthy's moral parables / Edwin T. Arnold -- Cormac McCarthy's first screenplay: "The gardener's son" / Dianne C. Luce -- The imprisonment of sensibility: Suttree / Thomas D. Young, Jr. -- "What kind of indians was them?": some historical sources in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian / John Emil Sepich -- "The very life of the darkness": a reading of Blood meridian / Steven Shaviro -- Gravers false and true: Blood meridian as gnostic tragedy / Leo Daugherty -- All the pretty horses: John Grady Cole's expulsion from paradise / Gail Moore Morrison -- The road and the matrix: the world as tale in the Crossing / Dianne c. Luce -- The last of the trilogy: first thoughts on Cities of the plain / Edwin T. Arnold.