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 ...

His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of ...

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.

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 ...

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Cormac McCarthy’s stories have been translated to the screen with success multiple times, but even titans sometimes fall. McCarthy’s play, The Sunset Limited, was adapted into a movie in 2011 ...