John Glanton News Today

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was suspicious of punctuation, profoundly interested in violence, respected skill and physical labour, and loved the ri

A journey through McCarthy’s work is not for the fainthearted, nor the weak-stomached. But these tales of society’s outcasts and misfits are hugely rewarding.

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

McCarthy imagined a vast border region where colonial empires clashed, tribes went to war, and bounty hunters roamed....