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Speaking as another son of a Tennessee industry lawyer—a country music lawyer; it was TVA power that helped turn Nashville into a radio and recording mecca—I think the prime darkness at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, always precariously perched over oblivion, began with his father, a fixer behind the laboratory that powered the possibility of human extinction.

The late novelist’s final books are ambitious portraits of the Western world and the human soul.

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.

The long, dark road from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris.

New York Times: McCarthy's books explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and gr

McCarthy, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning books are regarded as American masterpieces by critics and fans, died of natural causes at his home.

Cormac McCarthy best known for 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men' passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn more about his life and books.

In a moment of general bewilderment about what modern America is (or what it is now), the death of the old Cormac McCarthy It puts us in front of

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable outlook on life was first introduced to the world with his 1965 debut “The Orchard Keeper,” but the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer […]