Cormac McCarthy (Beowulf Sheehan)

Remembering Cormac McCarthy

By The Editors

June 20, 2023

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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.

June 14, 2023

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McCarthy’s is a Southern identity hitched to an Irish sensibility.

Child of God

By Robert Leiter

March 29, 1974

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Beyond Black & White

A Review of 'The Sunset Limited,' a Cormac McCarthy–scripted drama

By Celia Wren

February 4, 2011

Death and Dying

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'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

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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

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Culture

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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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