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 ...

McCarthy bagged numerous prizes over the decades, including a National Book Award and a Pulitzer. Some of his grim stories ...

McCarthy’s novel was turned into an indelible film by the Coen brothers, but get past that: The book is well worth revisiting. “No Country for Old Men” is a blood-dark meditation on the ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

Since McCarthy’s passing an outpouring of appreciative retrospectives have lionized the author, who wrote his way into the conversation for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His success extended beyond ...

though final for McCarthy, was anything but final for the politics of paranoia and resentment that he embodied. Risen begins and ends his book with the story of Helen Reid Bryan, the executive ...

"All The Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy is something for the ages. It provides an insight into the essence of country ...

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His political career essentially ended in 1982 with an unsuccessful bid for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Since then McCarthy has taught, lectured, and written books.