Cormac McCarthy

The moral valence of real-world situations is often complicated, with more gray than black and white. But other times, the moral clarity of a conflict is evident. So it is with the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine after…

Cormac McCarthy, perhaps the greatest American novelist since Faulkner, passed away on Tuesday. His fiction adeptly pinpoints the most profound aspects of American culture and identity, arguably outperforming the work of many sociologists.…

Quintessentially American novelist Cormac McCarthy died on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Since his death, tributes have poured in from virtually every major media outlet around the world. In one sense, praise for McCarthy, who, in the aftermath…

In 1994, the puckish American literary critic Harold Bloom published his “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.” Included in the sprawling, bombastic tome was a controversial list of what Bloom considered to be the great…