Features
Friday, January 14 2011
Rescripting the Western in 'No Country for Old Men'
How the Coen Brothers' ostensibly faithful award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men diverges from its creator's rather questionable politics.
Columns
Monday, June 8 2009
Blood Meridian: The Last of the True
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.
Reviews
Friday, January 11 2008
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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.
Wednesday, March 28 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy / Oprah's Book Club selection
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.
Monday, September 18 2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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.
Sunday, January 1 1995
A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy by Edwin T. Arnold & Dianne C. Luce, eds.
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.
Blogs
Monday, November 19 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy [$14.95]
Oprah is right on target with this one. The apocalypse is not to be tinkered with lightly, or given to writers of lesser caliber. McCarthy…
News
Thursday, March 29 2007
Oprah chooses bleak Cormac McCarthy novel for book club
Cormac McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey are one of the oddest and most unlikely cultural pairings since Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.
