The Latest Breaking News from Cormac McCarthy

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”.

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…

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

Acclaimed author whose novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian, told grim, violent tales of life stripped down to the fundamentals of existence in a hostile world

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From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinema

American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’