Butcher's Crossing by John Edward Williams
This is a western, and specifically a trail novel. Last year I really enjoyed Oakley Hall's Warlock, and Hall has been quoted as admiring Butcher's Crossing a great deal.
The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)
The shot in the beginning with the upside down statue of liberty delivers. The score delivers. Brody and Pearce are amazing in their scenes together. The artist lacks agency in everything but his art. America uses up it's immigrants and does not accept them. America a protestant hard-working nation cannot create good art of it's own, it must import it, but has no appreciation for it's provenance or meaning - it wants it only as a measure of it's own status.