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The best fiction of 2022: death and life in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger

In his book On Late Style, published posthumously in 2006, the Palestinian American critic Edward Said identifies a striking characteristic of some writers as they near the end of their lives.

The Conversation · Nov 24, 2022

Friday essay: the macabre metaphysic and schizophrenic style of Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, who will turn 90 next July, has just published two new novels, Stella Maris and The Passenger. The latter is arguably his most ambitious and satisfying work to date.

The Conversation · Nov 17, 2022

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child.

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2022

After 16 years, author Cormac McCarthy gifts two new novels to readers

Neither of the reclusive author's interconnected books The Passenger and Stella Maris contains the savagery and bloodletting his readers have come to expect — there's less action and more dialogue.

WEKU · Oct 22, 2022

The Last Victim review – modern dimestore western is Mo’ Country for Old Men

Ali Larter is the only bright spot of this western noir that seems familiar right down to the cod Cormac McCarthy voiceover

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

Chicago Tribune · Sep 21, 2022

Autumn reads — the best new books for 2022

Clear a physical space in your house and a mental space in your head for this season’s biggest-hitting new releases, says our resident expert bookworm Francesca Brown

Evening Standard · Sep 8, 2022

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

Gardai concerned for welfare of Dublin man missing for two weeks

He has been missing from his home in Skerries since Friday, July 8

Dublin Live · Jul 24, 2022

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2022