The late Cormac McCarthy was one of the best American novelists, and we are ranking his twelve novels based on how bleak and nihilistic they are.

Cormac McCarthy's seventh novel is also the second in the "Border Trilogy", The Crossing. In The Crossing , Billy Parham and ...

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...

If this makes McCarthy’s work sound bleak, well … it often was. His early works, ending with 1979’s “Suttree,” are Faulknerian fables of his birth territory of Appalachia.

Cormac McCarthy, lone wolf among the last of the literary giants The American novelist, who died Tuesday at 89, took grand stylistic chances that few others could — or would — dare June 14 ...

Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in Manhattan on Nov. 16, 2009. Credit: ... "The Crossing" (1994) "Cities of the Plain" (1998) ...

T he Passenger and Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy’s new novels, are his first in many years in which no horses are harmed and no humans scalped, shot, eaten, or brained with farm equipment.But ...

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,&#8221… ...

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer-Winning Author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country For Old Men,' Dead at 89 "For sixty years, ... The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. ...

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...