The Latest Breaking News from Cormac McCarthy

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.

Cormac McCarthy, who will turn 90 next July, has just published two new novels, Stella Maris and The Passenger. The latter is arguably his most ambitious and satisfying work to date.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child.

FICTION: Cormac McCarthy's electrifying twin novels are a tour de force in a singular career.

A salvage diver plumbs mysterious depths in Cormac McCarthy’s glorious sunset song of a novel

The Passenger and Stella Maris -- the author's first two books in more than a decade — seem to want to decode the meaning of life, both as standalone novels and together as intertwined works.

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