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Pop stars, actors and politicians we lost in 2023 – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on notable pop culture and political figures we lost this year

The Guardian - UK

Capitol Hill insiders share their favorite books to read in 2023 - Roll Call

Put these recent (and not-so-recent) titles on your gift list as the year wanes in Washington, recommended by readers in Congress.

Roll Call

The Counsellor: Ridley Scott’s crime thriller is packed with A-listers – and worth a second look

Heavy on dialogue and corpses, this 2013 film written by Cormac McCarthy stars Penélope Cruz, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem

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Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Walrus

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch review – Ireland under fascism

This Booker-longlisted dystopia with shades of Cormac McCarthy is nightmarish yet horribly convincing

The Guardian - UK

'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

The Conversation

‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots

The Guardian - UK

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You Need to Watch the Most Subversive Western Thriller On Amazon Prime ASAP

What’s the most you’ve ever lost in a coin toss?

Inverse

The Best Cormac McCarthy Adaptations, Ranked

Here are the five Cormac McCarthy book adaptations ranked from worst to best.

Cinemablend

Cormac McCarthy: Haunting novelist who lived to tackle life’s dark side

His idiosyncratic prose style drew comparisons with Joyce and Shakespeare but while a fierce devotion to his craft turned the ‘writer’s writer’ into a Pulitzer Prize-winner, it also took its toll on those closest to him

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy obituary: a novelist of the ‘apocalyptic sublime’

The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country…

The Week

Cormac McCarthy gave post-apocalyptic video games their flavour

The US novelist shaped the modern idea of the post-apocalypse. Without him, games such as The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption would not be the same

The Guardian - UK

‘A man of miracles’: The Road director John Hillcoat on Cormac McCarthy

The film-maker, who is also set to adapt Blood Meridian, reflects on his friendship with the late author, ‘a monumental artistic force’

The Guardian - US

Cormac McCarthy: where to begin reading his searing, brutal and unforgettable novels

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was suspicious of punctuation, profoundly interested in violence, respected skill and physical labour, and loved the richness of the English language. He was particularly fond of short, declarative sentences and the word “and”.

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Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

The Independent UK

For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre

In his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights

Salon

Cormac McCarthy didn't write Westerns

The acclaimed American writer never confined himself to one genre ... or its conventions for that matter

The Guardian - UK

A lyric poet of horror and chaos: the dark brilliance of Cormac McCarthy

From the visionary carnage of Blood Meridian to the snowy desolation of The Road, the late author’s incendiary vision leaves an indelible legacy

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'I Did Everything Right and They Indicted Me,' Says Defiant Trump in Post-Arraignment Speech

Plus: The FTC takes on Microsoft, RIP Cormac McCarthy, and more...

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy obituary

Acclaimed author whose novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian, told grim, violent tales of life stripped down to the fundamentals of existence in a hostile world

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Trump pleads not guilty and claims ‘political persecution’

Former president rallies supporters in New Jersey after appearing in court in Miami on federal charges

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Liberals break ranks over Higgins inquiry; Australian dead in Canadian wilderness; and a sullen Trump fronts court

Andrew Bragg labels debate in Senate as ‘very ugly’

The Guardian - AU

Masterpieces and oddities: Cormac McCarthy’s bleak, bold and batty films

From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinema

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy death: Revered author of The Road and No Country For Old Men dies aged 89

American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico

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