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Its deranged antagonist might be an Anton Chigurh rip-off, but some fantastically flailing fight scenes almost lift this otherwise humdrum action romp

Spoiler alert for the human race.

The legendary American writer initiated a relationship with a homeless teenager. Don’t put a romantic spin on it

Cormac McCarthy's work has always challenged directors and screenwriters, but his bleakest story spawned a movie that's defined a generation of post-apocalyptic storytelling.

Plus … Heartwarming: the worst person you know just had another bad thing happen to them

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

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

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

“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.