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Cormac McCarthy
June 13, 2023
Cormac McCarthy, One of America’s Greatest Novelists, Has Died
He takes his place with Melville, Faulkner, and Twain in the pantheon.
November 29, 2022
Magazine
Cormac McCarthy’s Respite From Loneliness
The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.
October 5, 2021
Critical Mass
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 9, 2019
Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
October 12, 2016
Is it Don DeLillo’s Year to Win the Nobel Prize?
There might not be a better time to recognize the accomplishments of the master chronicler of American dread.
July 30, 2014
James Franco's Utterly Misguided Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy
What happens when a selfie-addicted celebrity takes on the darkest of American masters

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