This “huge” fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he “pretty much hated” “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” His own ...

All the pretty balloons reminds me of the title of Cormac McCarthy’s book, “All the Pretty Horses.” Going to the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Indianola was never a bucket list item, but when Ginnie and ...

Their bodies sleep nearby, and that brings me to my primal fear. Stumbling onto a corpse. In our photo-journalism adventures, Robert Clark and I go to remote places frequented by mosquitoes, ticks, ...

Vice President JD Vance revealed some behind-the-scenes details about how he keeps his marriage and family life together ...

OpenAI’s new flagship AI model, GPT-5, crushes coding tests and complex logic, but lags behind rivals like Claude in creative ...

Western fiction is an American genre. Taking place on the American frontier, in the late 1800s to early 1900s, these stories feature cowboys, outlaws and settlers as main characters.

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge. Lea Carpenter is a novelist, ...

I finished the last post with a Cormac McCarthy quote, “If it doesn’t involve life and death, it’s not interesting”. Which, ...

This 2007 neo-western thriller, based on a novel of the same name, shook Noah Hawley to his core and is one of the best of ...

These dark academia books dive deep into obsession, intellect, and eerie mysteries. Haunting, thought-provoking, and ...

Men are increasingly absent from the literary world, not only as readers but increasingly as writers, critics, and cultural ...

The Cormac McCarthy Journal is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the works and influence of Cormac McCarthy. CMJ publishes articles, notes, and reviews related to Cormac McCarthy's novels, dramas, ...