Cormac McCarthy

Almost Biblical in its language, Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds while reminiscent (in tone and theme), in some parts, of Hemingway, and in others, of Cormac McCarthy, is an altogether original piece of fiction that can be read at multiple levels. Despite much of the slim volume’s pages featuring just one character, it is, at one level, about people and society. But at another, it is about man (a woman, in this case) and the wild, and the interactions between the two – about how one interacts with and shapes the other.…

William Faulkner is the bard of the American South. Saul Bellow is the supreme chronicler of Chicago. New York is contested territory. For a long time, Wallace Stegner could have laid claim to the West. But that was before Cormac McCarthy hit his stride. PREMIUM Cormac McCarthy, the revered and unflinching chronicler of America's bleak frontiers and grim underbellies, died on June 13, 2023, his publisher said. He was 89 years old. (AFP) To understand the American West, you need to know the land and its…