Irish author Kevin Barry turns his gaze Stateside for a brutal, beautiful neo-Western
The Heart in Winter is easily one of the best books of the year.
“There’s no such thing as a life without bloodshed”: Cormac McCarthy, spiritual heir to Melville and Faulkner, dies at age 89
McCarthy's outlook was bleak and violent because the world he observed was bleak and violent.
Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.
31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 21: “A Bear Hunt” by William Faulkner
One of Faulkner’s most exuberant tales, this story of poetic revenge is also uproariously funny.