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Column: When a book becomes a play or movie, should you read it first?

I am aware that adaptations have been with us for centuries and that Shakespeare borrowed his best plots. But that doesn't stop this book lover from being suspicious when movies and plays glom onto my favorite titles.

Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2023

Commentary: What a Jewish archive in Poland can teach us about Ukrainians’ refugee experience

While I was standing in the Jewish archives in Warsaw, Poland, during a recent humanitarian trip to strengthen programs of protection and safety for refugees from Ukraine, time became quite circular — an evocation of William Faulkner’s adage that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” For brought…

Chicago Tribune · Jun 14, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella and A Death In The Parish by Reverend Richard Coles.

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2023

Cormac McCarthy showed us America’s violent heart

With mordant wit and stark description, the literary great wove a tapestry of anger, humour, decency and bad behaviour – and of the perpetual terror of man

The Guardian - US · Jun 14, 2023

Cormac McCarthy only signed 250 copies of The Road so son could sell them and ‘go to Las Vegas’

US author was famously averse to promoting his own material

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’ author, dies at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy was the author of heavy books. In turn, those books inspired some very heavy music

Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89. The author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, his books struck a chord with Nick Cave, Clutch, Earth, Watain and more – why?

Metal Hammer · Jun 13, 2023

Elizabeth Gilbert criticized for 'wrongheaded' decision to pull Russia-set novel

The bestselling author of "Eat, Pray, Love" is pulling her forthcoming book from publication after facing online backlash, which is baffling the literary community.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels that included “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” has died

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, dark genius of US literature, dies age 89

Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, has died at the age of 89.

The New Daily · Jun 13, 2023