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Lonesome Dove is one of the benchmarks for western novels. Here is a list of the best western books for fans of Larry Mcmurtry and great historical reads.

The Day’s writers have chosen their favorite exhibitions and books of the past year. EXHIBITIONS “Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post Covers: Tell Me a Story” June-Sept., Mystic Museum of Art...

Cormac McCarthy is perhaps Americas greatest living novelist, but The Passenger and Stella Maris are more thought experiments than stories.

His novels are full of food scenes, often in modest digs. Why do they resonate so much?

These companion novels are not failures, but they do not come close to reaching the dizzying heights of the greatest works of McCarthy.

The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

“Stella Maris” is the second of McCarthy’s two new books about grief, math and the nature of knowledge.

With The Passenger, his first novel in 16 years, the author long consumed by violent themes turns to cosmic questions about life, death, and God.

Two young cowboys on the loose in Mexico. A prosperous rancher with an illustrious family history. His beautiful daughter. And, of course, wild horses. An epic in the old style.

America's greatest living author is also its most reclusive. So in 1994, a Telegraph journalist flew to Texas determined to make him talk…