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Cormac McCarthy (Beowulf Sheehan)

Remembering Cormac McCarthy

The Editors
June 20, 2023
Literature
Fiction

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Article

Cormac McCarthy’s Moral Imagination

Critics have described Cormac McCarthy as a writer beyond good and evil. But beneath the neuter austerity of McCarthy’s prose, a keen moral imagination is at work.
By Matthew Boudway
June 14, 2023
Theology
Book Essay
Books
Article
McCarthy’s is a Southern identity hitched to an Irish sensibility.

Child of God

By Robert Leiter
March 29, 1974
From the Archives
Literature
Article

Beyond Black & White

A Review of 'The Sunset Limited,' a Cormac McCarthy–scripted drama
By Celia Wren
February 4, 2011
Death and Dying
Media
Article
'No Country for Old Men' is the almost-perfect visual equivalent of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel.

The Haunting

By Richard Alleva
December 17, 2007
Movies
Article

The Ghosts and Jokes of Cormac McCarthy

“I have lately come into possession of a fact that threatens my very sense of things. It is this: Cormac McCarthy is funny.”
By Phil Christman
March 6, 2023
Books
Culture
Article
This brilliant novel will force readers to view McCarthy as an original stylist, as one of the best contemporary writers.

A Sense of Incarnation

By Irving Malin
June 15, 2023
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