Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction: 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 …
Cormac McCarthy: where to begin reading his searing, brutal and unforgettable novels: 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”. McCarthy’s much lamented death at 89 …
The best fiction of 2022: death and life in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger: Album/Alamy In his book On Late Style, published posthumously in 2006, the Palestinian American critic Edward Said identifies a striking characteristic of some writers as they near the end of their lives. Rather than going gently into that good night, to borrow …