Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, the ‘bloodiest book ever written’
"There was blood that stretched in dark tongues across the floor and there was blood that covered the paving stones...
"There was blood that stretched in dark tongues across the floor and there was blood that covered the paving stones...
Birth of a masterpiece. The apocalypse is a simple story. "I don't know what God is, but I pray." "I...
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa distinguished between fat writers and thin writers. Baroques generous with words, and those from whom nothing...
From Greek tragedy to B-movies, the American writer knew how to draw on both the narrative tradition and the hard...
In the moment of general perplexity about what contemporary America is (or what it is becoming), the death of the...
One of the greatest American novelists of his time has died at the age of 89. "Heaven is sitting in...
Of Antonio Carioti He had won the Pulitzer Prize for his post-apocalyptic novel The Road. Dark and raw author to...
American writer Cormac McCarthy, one of American literature's greatest novelists, died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe,...