The Latest Breaking News from Cormac McCarthy

The American novelist – typically striding a fine line between profound and preposterous – has brought a new interest in quantum mechanics to the story of two ill-fated siblings

Neither of the reclusive author's interconnected books The Passenger and Stella Maris contains the savagery and bloodletting his readers have come to expect — there's less action and more dialogue.

Ali Larter is the only bright spot of this western noir that seems familiar right down to the cod Cormac McCarthy voiceover

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

Clear a physical space in your house and a mental space in your head for this season’s biggest-hitting new releases, says our resident expert bookworm Francesca Brown

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

He has been missing from his home in Skerries since Friday, July 8

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

Hundreds of people who attacked the Capitol have been arrested — but so far, not the leaders who sent them there

There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his son

Heard people raving about the American novelist and want to know what all the fuss is about? This handy guide might just help you get stuck in