Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn't share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023 ...

The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published Wednesday. Complete with excerpts from love letters and the first-hand ...

and he makes judicious use of it in his illuminating study of McCarthy's Irish and Catholic cultural inheritance. My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is ...

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 worldview about similar topics.

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

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 ...

Then came an audiobook to shiver my timbers. Suddenly, I heard of “clabberd” houses, stopping mid-walk to adjust my ear-buds.

Many scholars consider this to be McCarthy’s greatest Southern novel. It traces the title character’s life along the Tennessee River mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. This whipsawing ...

MOVING WALL The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Moving walls are generally represented in years.

The devil has never been represented so well. Cormac McCarthy must have been having lunch dates with Satan himself to craft the character of Judge Holden in “Blood Meridian.” The book’s premise is the ...

Grinning Hideously Over Their Canted Pieces refers to a line in the last paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian describing a scene about Judge ...