Cruelty Apr 2026

: An opinion piece in The New York Times reviews the tension between banning animal cruelty depictions and protecting free speech, arguing that the best way to fight cruelty is through vigorous enforcement of existing laws rather than broad speech restrictions.

: Analyses of McCarthy's Child of God (or Ein Kind Gottes ) focus on the "detachment from emotionality" and the author's ability to present horrific scenes as matter-of-fact. Reviewers note that while the content is extreme, it serves to examine the "purposefully overlooked crevices of a man's mind". Public Interest & Ethical Reviews cruelty

: Reviews for Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead on The StoryGraph examine a narrator who frames a series of murders as "animals taking revenge" against hunters. These reviews explore whether her actions are a justified moral code or the product of a "mental disturbance". : An opinion piece in The New York