The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
The New Yorker
February 11, 2026
Bart Layton, whose new film stars Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo, discusses a few of his favorite novels that question the romance of the frontier.
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Originally published on The New Yorker on 2/11/2026