Matthew Boudway Two of the best books I read this year were both day-by-day accounts of long, unlikely walks. Apart from that, and their general excellence, they have little in common. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 241 pp.) has already been justly praised by many reviewers as a masterpiece. Partly on the strength of that praise and the author’s formidabl (...)