Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road are all among the very best books by American author Cormac McCarthy, ...

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’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 trying to explain the popularity of novelist Theodore Dreiser, the literary critic Lionel Trilling proposed that it had something to do with Americans’ sense of reality. Trilling concluded ...