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Few authors demand as much from their readers as Cormac McCarthy does.

Looking to embark on an incredible literary journey? You should start with Cormac McCarthy's extraordinary books! See them all ranked from best to worst.

It is the presence of grace in Cormac McCarthys dark stories that made him truly peerless.

Readers would be hard-pressed to find a religious creed in the often dark works of Cormac McCarthy. But the writers depictions of darkness are never devoid of light, however tragic or precarious its place in the narratives.

Matt Jones remembers a literary great and reflects on the expressive power of syntax and vocabulary in the writing of Cormac McCarthy.

McCarthy rendered dialect with such detail and humorous good sense that readers couldn't fail to understand he was telling more than a story.

“The surprise of all this tenderness—brutality and tenderness always strangely twins, never far from each other, never balanced.”

Author and academic Kevin Power pays tribute to a great writer, whose works evoke the terror of nihilism

He wasn’t a recluse, he didn’t do small talk, and he wrote his best novels when miserable. A friend recalls the man behind the myth

Cormac McCarthy’s fiction constitutes a reckoning with the Age of Aftermath