American novelist Cormac McCarthy's 12 books are widely considered some of the best literature of the modern canon, and he is often ranked among the greatest American writers ever. Charles Joseph ...

McCarthy's oeuvre may be a little intimidating for newcomers, but luckily the users of the book review site Goodreads are ...

McCarthy’s novel was turned into an indelible film by the Coen brothers, but get past that: The book is well worth revisiting. “No Country for Old Men” is a blood-dark meditation on the ...

"All The Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy is something for the ages. It provides an insight into the essence of country ...

Trilling’s insight goes some way toward explaining the success of another American literary giant, Cormac McCarthy, who died last month. Since McCarthy’s passing an outpouring of appreciative ...

there is a stronger author out there. Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living novelist. It’s actually strange that he and Houellebecq aren’t compared more often since both write from a similar ...

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

With the publication last fall of “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” there was a common — though largely unspoken — sentiment among the literary set: these would probably be the last novels we would ...