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José Skinner’s fast-paced satire delivers sharp insights gleaned from years lived in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley.

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.

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