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Cormac McCarthy’s secret ‘muse’ — who was 16 while he was in his 40s — reveals herself for the first time

Augusta Britt, who says she met the then-married author at a motel pool, is believed to have inspired several novels

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports

Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool

The Guardian - UK

Vance uses killer quote to explain Trump

Vance invoked the words of a ruthless killer from the mind of Cormac McCarthy to explain the election

Salon

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A tale of unhappy families summons the fierce politics of Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, the year Russia’s imperial war against the Ottoman Empire concluded – a war that had prompted international alarm about Russian expansionism and fomented internal unrest.

The Conversation

Juice by Tim Winton review – life after the apocalypse

Set centuries from now, this gripping tale of retribution against the corporations who fuelled climate breakdown has echoes of Cormac McCarthy

The Guardian - UK

One of the best thrillers ever is leaving Prime Video very soon — here's your last day to stream it

Ethan and Joel Coen's stark Western crime-thriller 'No Country for Old Men' is leaving Prime Video very soon; stream it ASAP before it leaves.

Tom’s Guide

The graphic novel adaptation of post-apocalyptic classic The Road is one of the most frightening and beautiful comics you will read this year

Interview | Artist and writer Manu Larcenet on adapting Cormac McCarthy's famous novel

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18 Years Later, a Legendary Writer's Apocalypse Epic Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

A new graphic novel brings Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic road trip to life. “I immediately was enthralled by the atmosphere it creates,” cartoonist Manu Larcenet tells Inverse.

Inverse

Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael by Joy Williams review – brilliantly deadpan

A master of the short story explores mortality and beyond, through these funny, boundlessly intelligent visions of the angel of death

The Guardian - UK

7 best Coen brothers movies, ranked

Our ranking of Joel and Ethan Coen's seven best films, including "‘No Country for Old Men" and "The Big Lebowski"

Tom’s Guide

Pop stars, actors and politicians we lost in 2023 – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on notable pop culture and political figures we lost this year

The Guardian - UK

Capitol Hill insiders share their favorite books to read in 2023 - Roll Call

Put these recent (and not-so-recent) titles on your gift list as the year wanes in Washington, recommended by readers in Congress.

Roll Call

The Counsellor: Ridley Scott’s crime thriller is packed with A-listers – and worth a second look

Heavy on dialogue and corpses, this 2013 film written by Cormac McCarthy stars Penélope Cruz, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem

The Guardian - AU

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

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The Guardian - UK

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch review – Ireland under fascism

This Booker-longlisted dystopia with shades of Cormac McCarthy is nightmarish yet horribly convincing

The Conversation

'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots

Inverse

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The Best Cormac McCarthy Adaptations, Ranked

Here are the five Cormac McCarthy book adaptations ranked from worst to best.

The Independent UK

Cormac McCarthy: Haunting novelist who lived to tackle life’s dark side

His idiosyncratic prose style drew comparisons with Joyce and Shakespeare but while a fierce devotion to his craft turned the ‘writer’s writer’ into a Pulitzer Prize-winner, it also took its toll on those closest to him

The Week

Cormac McCarthy obituary: a novelist of the ‘apocalyptic sublime’

The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country…

The Guardian - UK

Cormac McCarthy gave post-apocalyptic video games their flavour

The US novelist shaped the modern idea of the post-apocalypse. Without him, games such as The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption would not be the same

The Guardian - US

‘A man of miracles’: The Road director John Hillcoat on Cormac McCarthy

The film-maker, who is also set to adapt Blood Meridian, reflects on his friendship with the late author, ‘a monumental artistic force’

The Conversation

Cormac McCarthy: where to begin reading his searing, brutal and unforgettable novels

The novelist Cormac McCarthy was suspicious of punctuation, profoundly interested in violence, respected skill and physical labour, and loved the richness of the English language. He was particularly fond of short, declarative sentences and the word “and”.

The Conversation

Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

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