June 2009
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May 2009
Will I see you tonight, on a downtown train?
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Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of Choice: One Writer,...
McCarthy has given new shades to the English language, and that should be enough. Were he a painter or a composer, or perhaps even a poet, it probably would be, but Cormac McCarthy is a fiction writer, and fiction is generally construed to carry burdens above and beyond anything so frivolous as mere style. Stories must mean something. They must appear to argue for or against moral systems—or at...
