Blood Meridian: The Last of the True

By Andrew Gilstrap

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian has been called unfilmable, but that doesn't stop Ben Nichols from getting ahead of the game and crafting a worthy soundtrack. [8 June 2009]

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

By Michael Patrick Brady

Though the novel and film versions of McCarthy's story share the same long, desolate stretch of road, they provide differing ways of encountering and interpreting the signs along the way. [11 January 2008]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy / Oprah’s Book Club selection

By Chris Barsanti

Oprah loves the father-son journey of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel and has made it the newest pick in the influential Oprah's Book Club. [28 March 2007]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

By Chris Barsanti

McCarthy takes a style that's always had a tilt towards the gothic and gives it free reign as he follows a father and son diligently struggling across a blasted and dead countryside that seems to have once been America. [18 September 2006]

A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy by Edwin T. Arnold & Dianne C. Luce, eds.

By John Sears

In the 1990s, this community of McCarthy fans extended its territory into the world of the American academy with the establishment of something called, in this volume, 'McCarthy studies', practised by a weird enclave of literary critics and pop cultural historians who, judging by the essays here, are immersed in the intricacies of their intellectual obsession. [1 January 1995]

Consuming Consumables: The Road by Cormac McCarthy [$14.95]

Oprah chooses bleak Cormac McCarthy novel for book club [29 March 2007]

Cormac McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey are one of the oddest and most unlikely cultural pairings since Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.