Preface

The following is a listing of English-language print materials relevant to Cormac McCarthy studies, updated and expanded from its first versions, which were published in Southern Quarterly (1992) and in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1993). Omitted here are the listings of primary materials, foreign language studies, and most English-language items published in countries whose predominant language is other than English, except for those available in the United States. (Such lists appear elsewhere on the Cormac McCarthy web pages.) Internet publications are not indexed here.
     The first section below attempts an inclusive listing—alphabetical by author—of printed books and articles that have given scholarly examination to McCarthy’s work, including entries in reference books and review-essays of scholarly books. (Short reviews of scholarly books on McCarthy are not listed.)  Reviews of McCarthy’s books by scholars are not listed here, but in the Reviews section of the bibliography. Included too are a few items that are not scholarly in nature, but which appear in professional journals. To document McCarthy’s reception in the scholarly community, even very brief or insignificant treatments of his work have been included; for many of these, annotations identify the nature of the material relating to McCarthy.
     Dissertations and theses focused on McCarthy have become more common as his reputation has become established, and in this update of the bibliography, the dissertations and theses have been removed from the scholarly studies section and placed in sections of their own.  Also new is a separate section of interviews, which includes the two major print interviews by Richard Woodward, and a few early pieces published in the Knoxville newspapers.  Despite their importance, McCarthy’s televised interview with Oprah Winfrey and the clips from it made available on the Oprah’s Book Club website are not listed.
     The Reviews section identifies book reviews grouped by novel in the order of original publication from The Orchard Keeper (1965) through The Road (2006). There are also sections for reviews of The Gardener’s Son (1996), the television drama made from McCarthy’s screenplay in 1977, and for reviews of his stage-plays The Stonemason (1994) and The Sunset Limited (2006). The list includes assessments published in scholarly journals, national periodicals, major newspapers such as the New York Times and the London Times, and some smaller newspapers. Until recently, I had not attempted to locate all reviews published in local newspapers throughout the United States, except in those cities where McCarthy has lived for a substantial period. But with the new availability of electronic databases, it has become possible to be much more inclusive.  The current update (2007) lists a substantially increased number recent news articles and reviews in this country and in other English-speaking countries.  Some of this is due to the wider recognition McCarthy has earned since the 1990s; part is due to the improvement in bibliographical finding aids.  As in past versions of the bibliography, reviews have not been listed in their multiple appearances in newspapers across the country. Usually, only the first appearance of a review is listed here.
     A chronological listing of pieces from news media and popular magazines follows the Reviews section. Many of these are slight and are included only to document McCarthy’s reception and recognition.  Others, if used with caution, are helpful in establishing biographical details about this most private author:  marriage and death notices about his family members and interviews with and articles about McCarthy’s second wife, Anne DeLisle. Some provide context for the design, editing and publishing of his work.
     The final section, with no claim to exhaustiveness, cites a miscellany of references to McCarthy’s life or work by other literary figures. Taken together with the assessments of his books by such writers as Nelson Algren, Madison Smartt Bell, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote listed in the Reviews section, these items attest to the influence and reputation McCarthy has among his peers. Of biographical interest is poetry by McCarthy’s first wife, Lee McCarthy.
     The checklist as a whole includes every American and British print publication relating to McCarthy that I have been able to locate and verify to date, with the exception of some insignificant, strictly factual notices of his books’ publications. Asterisks mark those items I have not personally seen, but which are included here because I was able to acquire complete bibliographical information about them from sources I deemed likely to be accurate.
     I am grateful for the help of many McCarthy scholars and readers who have called my attention to some of the materials which appear in the bibliography or who helped locate them. Special thanks go to Travis Gordon of the Midlands Technical College English Department for his generous advice and assistance in preparing this document for Web access. Appreciation is also due to the library staffs of Midlands Technical College and the University of South Carolina.
     This checklist is updated periodically with new listings appearing in red. Authors and researchers are invited to make suggestions for additions or corrections by e-mailing the compiler at <dluce@mindspring.com>.

Dianne C. Luce
July 2007

Ambrosiano, Jason. “Blood in the Tracks: Catholic Postmodernism in The Crossing.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 83-91.

Anderson, David. “Conquering the ‘Feathered Kingdom’: Judge Holden’s Humanism in Blood Meridian.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 386-89.

Anderson, Richard. “‘There aint no law in Mexico. It’s just a pack of rogues.’” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 354-62.

Arnold, Edwin T. “Blood & Grace: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy.” Commonweal 121 (4 Nov. 1994): 11-16.

——. “Cormac McCarthy: 1933.” Popular World Fiction 1900 - Present. Ed. Walton Bacham and Suzanne Niemeyer. Washington, DC: Beacham, 1987.1036-43.

*——.  “Cormac McCarthy’s Frontier Humor.”  The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor.  Ed.  Ed Piacentino.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006.  190-209.

——. "Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason: The Unmaking of a Play.” Southern Quarterly 33.2-3 (Winter-Spring 1995): 117-29. Rev. in Wallach 141-54.

——.  “Cormac McCarthy’s Whales and Men.”  Chollier 17-30.

——. “Disgust in the Early Works of Cormac McCarthy.” Cormac McCarthy.  Ed. Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold.  Spec. issue of Profils Américains 17 (2004): 61-87.

——. “‘Go to sleep’: Dreams and Visions in the Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 34-58. Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 37-72.

——. "Horseman, Ride On.” World & I  Oct. 1998: 259-67.

——. “Introduction.”  Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 2-6.

——. “The Last of the Trilogy: First Thoughts on Cities of the Plain.” Arnold and Luce, Perspectives, rev. ed. 221-47.

——. “McCarthy and the Sacred: A Reading of The Crossing.” Lilley 215-38.

——. “The Mosaic of McCarthy’s Fiction.” Hall and Wallach 17-23; rev. ed. 1:1-8.

——. “The Mosaic of McCarthy’s Fiction, Continued.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2:179-87.  Rpt. Bloom 45-51.

——. “Naming, Knowing and Nothingness: McCarthy’s Moral Parables.”Southern Quarterly 30 (Summer 1992): 31-50. Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives  43-67; rev. ed. 45-69.

——. “No Country for Old Men.” Cormac McCarthy.  Ed. Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold.  Spec. issue of Profils Américains 17 (2004): 213-17.

——. “Outer Dark.” Masterplots II: American Fiction Series. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1986. 1227-31.

——. “A Stonemason Evening.” State of the Arts at Clear Lake. Nov./Dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpt. Cormac McCarthy Journal 2 (Spring 2002): 7-11.

——. “Suttree.” Masterplots II: American Fiction Series. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1986. 1559-63.

——.“The World of The Orchard Keeper.” Holloway 1-5.

—— and Dianne C. Luce, eds. A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy.   Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2001.

——. “Introduction."  Arnold and Luce, Companion vii-xi.

——. “Introduction."  Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 3-13; rev. ed. 1-16.

—— , eds. Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993;  rev. ed. 1999.

*Bailey, Charles. "’Doomed Enterprises’ and Faith: The Structure of Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Southwestern American Literature 20 (Fall 1994): 57-67.

——. “The Last Stage of the Hero’s Evolution: Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain.”  Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 74-82.  Slightly rev. in Wallach 293-301. Rpt. Bloom 131-40.

Bartlett, Andrew. “From Voyeurism to Archaeology: Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God.” Southern Literary Journal 24 (Fall 1991): 3-15.

Beck, John. “’A Certain but Fugitive Testimony’: Witnessing the Light of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwestern Fiction.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 124-32.  Slightly rev. in Wallach 209-16.

——. “Filibusterers and Fundamentalists: Blood Meridian and the New Right.” Polemics: Essays in American Literary and Cultural Criticism.  Ed. David Holloway. Vol. 1.  Sheffield, England: Black Rock P, 2004.  13-26.

Bell, James Luther. Cormac McCarthy’s West: The Border Trilogy Annotations. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2002.

Bell, Madison Smartt. “A Writer’s View of Cormac McCarthy.” Wallach 1-11.

Bell, Vereen M. The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP,1988.

——. “The Ambiguous Nihilism of Cormac McCarthy.” Southern Literary Journal 15 (Spring 1983): 31-41.

——. “Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.” Southern Review 28.4 (October 1992): 920-27. Rpt. Bloom 37-44.

——. “Cormac McCarthy.” Cyclopedia of World Authors II. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1989. Vol. 3: 964-65.

Belleteste, Guillemette. “A Collaborative Translation.”  Chollier 219-25.

Benson, Robert. “McCarthy, Cormac (1933-).” The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Ed. Carroll Van West, et. al. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society and Rutledge Hill P, 1998. 581-82.

Berry, K. Wesley.  “The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper and Child of God.” Southern Quarterly 38.4 (Summer 2000): 61-77. Rev. as “The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia.” Lilley 47-73.

Bingham, Arthur. “Syntactic Complexity and Iconicity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Language and Literature 20 (1995): 19-33.

Blair, John. “Mexico and the Borderlands in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Critique 42.3 (Spring 2001): 301-07.

Bloom, Harold. “Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian.” How to Read and Why. New York: Scribner, 2000. 254-63.

____. Modern Critical Views: Cormac McCarthy. Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2002.

Bowers, James. Reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Boise State U Western Writers Ser. 139. Boise: Boise State U, 1999.

Branam, Harold. “Cormac McCarthy.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction Supplement. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987. 265-70. Slightly revised Critical Survey of Long Fiction: English Language Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1991. 5: 2142-48.

Brewton, Vince.  “The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s Early Novels and the Border Trilogy.”  Southern Literary Journal  37.1 (Fall 2004): 121-43.

Brickman, Barbara Jane. “Imposition and Resistance in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper.” Southern Quarterly 38.2 (Winter 2000): 123-34.  Rpt. Wallach 55-67.

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr.  Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 2000.  [McCarthy 38-51, notes 120-21.]

——. "Westward, Ho!: Contemporary Southern Writing and the American West.” The Southern State of Mind. Ed. Jan Nordby Gretlund. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999. 203-11. [McCarthy 208-10.]

Brooks, James F. "Served Well by Plunder: La Gran Ladronería and Producers of History Astride the Rio Grande.” American Quarterly 52.1 (Mar. 2000): 23-58.

Bryant, J. A., Jr. Twentieth-Century Southern Literature. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997. [McCarthy 111, 220-25, 270.]

Burton, Linda. “Cormac McCarthy(1933- ).” Stories from Tennessee. Ed. Linda Burton. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1983. 372. [Brief biographical sketch.]

Busby, Mark. “Into the Darkening Land, The World to Come: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Crossings.” Wallach 227-48. Rpt. Bloom141-67.

Butler, Jack. “The Ghosts of Stay More: Being a Congerie of Observations on the Writings Person of Donald Harington.” Chicago Review 38.4 (1993): 120-26. [Includes brief comparison of McCarthy’s reception and Harington’s.]

Butterworth, D. S. "Pearls as Swine: Recentering the Marginal in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” Hall and Wallach 95-101; rev. ed. 1:131-37.

Campbell, Christopher D. “Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field and McCarthy’s Enigmatic Epilogue: ‘Y qué clase de lugar es éste?’.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 2 (Spring 2002): 40-55.

Campbell, James R. “‘Seeking Evidence of the Hand of God in the World’: Transforming Destruction in The Crossing." Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 13-17.

Campbell, Neil. "’Beyond Reckoning’: Cormac McCarthy’s Version of the West in Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West."  Critique 39:1 (Fall 1997): 55-64.  Rev. as “Liberty beyond its Proper Bounds: Cormac McCarthy’s History of the West in Blood Meridian.” Wallach 217-26.

——. “From Theory to Practice–‘The story’s told/ Turn the page’: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” The Cultures of the American New West. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 23-30.

Canfield, J. Douglas. “The Border of Becoming: Theodicy in Blood Meridian.” Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 37-48, notes 214.

——.  “Crossing from the Wasteland into the Exotic in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Arnold and Luce, Companion 256-69.

——. “The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius: Abjection, Identity, and the Carnivalesque in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.”  Contemporary Literature  44.4  (Wtr. 2003): 664-96.

——.  “Oedipal Complexities in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason and The Gardener’s Son.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 2 (Spring 2002): 12-22.

Cant, John. “Oedipus Rests: Mimesis and Allegory in No Country for Old Men.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 97-121.

Caron, Timothy P. “’Blood is Blood’: All the Pretty Horses in the Multicultural Literature Class.” Lilley 153-70.

Carr, Duane R. “The Dispossessed White as Naked Ape and Stereotyped Hillbilly in the Southern Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Midwest Quarterly 40.1 (Autumn 1998): 9.

*Carragher, Michael.  “’I Tego Arcana Dei’: Aspects of the Demonic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association  23.1 (Spring 1997): 13-21.

Cawelti, John G. "Cormac McCarthy: Restless Seekers." Southern Writers at Century’s End. Ed. Jeffrey J. Folks and James A. Perkins. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997. 164-76.Rpt., slightly revised, in An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature.  Ed. Danny L. Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman.  Athens: Ohio UP, 2005.  306-14.

——. The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel.  Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1999.  [All the Pretty Horses 114-17.]

Cheuse, Alan. “A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses.” Southern Quarterly 30 (Summer 1992): 140-42.

Chollier, Christine. “Autotextuality, or Dialogic Imagination in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 10-33.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 3-36.

Chollier, Christine, ed.   Cormac McCarthy: Uncharted Territories/ Territoires Inconnus.  UP of Reims: Reims, France, 2003.

——. “Exposure and Double Exposure in Cormac McCarthy’s Baroque Trilogy.” Holloway 49-56. 

——. “’I aint come back rich, that’s for sure’ or The Questioning of Market Economies in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 43-49. Rev. in Wallach 171-76.

——. “‘A thing wholly alien’: Focalization, Dispossession and Nescience in The Crossing.” Chollier 123-45.

Ciuba, Gary M. "McCarthy’s Enfant Terrible: Mimetic Desire and Sacred Violence in Child of God.” Hall and Wallach 77-85; rev. ed. 1: 93-102.

Clarke, Brock.“Art, Authenticity, and Social Transgression in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 117-23.

Cole, Kevin L. "McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy." Explicator 59.3 (Spring 2001): 161-63.

*Combest, Ashley. “Lester Ballard as Savior?  Representations of Christ in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God.”  Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (2003): 14-17.

Cooper Alarcón, Daniel. The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1997. 88-92.

——. “’Doomed Enterprises’: McCarthy’s Mexican Representations.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 58-66.  Rev. as “All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations.” Lilley 141-52.

Cosper, Dale and Ethan Cary. “Suttree and L’Etranger: The Hounds of Gnosticism.” Studies on Lucette Desvignes and the Twentieth Century 6 (1996): 155-76.

Cox, Dianne L. [Dianne C. Luce]. “Cormac McCarthy.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II. Second Series. Ed. James E. Kibler, Jr. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. 6: 224-32.

*Cremean, David. “For Whom the Bell Tolls: Conservatism and Change in Cormac McCarthy’s Sheriff from No Country for Old Men.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 42-61.

Curry, Kenneth. English at Tennessee 1794-1988. Knoxville:U of Tennessee Department of English, 1989. 73.

Curtis, Diana Sylvia. “McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Explicator  63.2 (Wtr. 2005):  112-14.

——. “Signification in Blood Meridian: Conscience and Voice.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 364-74.

*Cutchins, D.  “All the Pretty Horses: Cormac McCarthy’s Reading of For Whom the Bell Tolls.”  Western American Literature 41.3 (2006): 267-300.

Daugherty, Leo. "Gravers False and True:  Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy."  Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 122-33.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 157-72; rev ed. 159-74. Rpt. Bloom 23-35.

Ditsky, John. “Further Into Darkness: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Hollins Critic 18 (Apr. 1981): 1-11. *Rpt. Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English.  Ed. R. H. W. Dillard and Amanda Cockrell.  Vol. 2.  New York: Twayne, 2002.  23-31.[Includes portions of a letter from McCarthy to Ditsky.]

Donoghue, Denis. “Reading Blood Meridian.” Sewanee Review 105.3 (July-Sept. 1997): 401-18. Slightly revised as “Teaching Blood Meridian.” The Practice of Reading. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. 258-77.

Dougherty, William H. “Crossing.” Verbatim 21 (Spring 1995): 5-7.

Douglas, Christopher. “The Flawed Design: American Imperialism in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Critique 45.1 (Fall 2003): 3-24.

Eaton, Mark A. “Dis(Re)Membered Bodies: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies 49.1 (Spring 2003): 155-80.

Eddins, Dwight. “’Everything a Hunter and Everything Hunted’: Schopenhauer and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Critique 45.1 (Fall 2003): 25-33.

Ellis, Jay. “Arcs Within the Arc.” Holloway 35-39.

*——. “Identity across Blood Meridians.” Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Ed. Gerard A. Hauser and Amy Grim. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003. 145-50.

 “McCarthy Music.” Wallach 157-70.

——.  No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.  New York: Routledge, 2006. 

 ——. "The Rape of Rawlins: A Note on All the Pretty Horses.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 66-68.

*——. “‘What happens to country’ in Blood Meridian.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature  60.1 (2006): 85-97.

——, and Natalka Palczynski. “Horses, Houses, and the Gravy to Win: Chivalric and Domestic Roles in the Border Trilogy.” Hall and Wallach,  rev ed. 2:105-25. 

Eustache-Ney, Rachel.  “The Other and Death in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Chollier 169-89. 

Evenson, Brian. "McCarthy’s Wanderers: Nomadology, Violence, and Open Country.” Hall and Wallach 41-48; rev. ed. 1:51-59.

*Evertson, Matt. “Love, Loss, and Growing Up in J. D. Salinger and Cormac McCarthy.” The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays. Ed. J. P. Steed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 101-41.

Fielder, Adrian V. “Historical Representation and the Scriptural Economy of Imperialism: Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Comparative Literature Studies 37.1 (2000): 18-44.

Fisher-Wirth, Ann. “Abjection and ‘the Feminine’ in Outer Dark.” Lilley 125-40.

——. “El Otro Sud: Willa Cather and Cormac McCarthy.” Value and Vision in American Literature: Literary Essays in Honor of Ray Lewis White. Ed. Joseph Candido. Athens: Ohio UP, 1999. 115-31.

Frye, Steven.  “Fate without Foreknowledge:  Style and Image in the Late Naturalism of Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 184-94.

——.  “Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men: Art and Artifice in the New Novel.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 27-41.

*——. "Shamans and Savages: History, Historiography, and the Figure of the Mexican in Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy." Journal of Indo-American Studies 1 (2002): 140-56.

——.  “Wilderness Typology, American Scripture, and the Interpreter’s Eye:  The Interior Landscapes of McCarthy’s Western Novels.” Chollier 115-22.

Gibson, Mike. “‘He felt at home in this place’: Knoxville Gave Cormac McCarthy the Raw Material of his Art. And He Gave it Back.” Metro Pulse [Knoxville, TN] 1 Mar. 2001: 10-14, 16. Rpt. as “Knoxville Gave Cormac McCarthy the Raw Material of his Art.  And He Gave it Back.” Hall and Wallach, rev ed. 1:23-34.  [Biographical account based on interviews with several Knoxville friends of McCarthy.]

Gilbert, Scott. “Discourse Theory in The Crossing.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 38-43.

Giles, James R. The Spaces of Violence.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. [Outer Dark and Child of God: 16-41, 191-92.]

*——. “Teaching the Contemporary Naturalism of Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.”  ALN: American Literary Naturalism Newsletter 1.1 (2006): 2-7.

——.“Violence and the Immanence of the ‘Thing Unknown’: Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2000. 84-99, notes 140-41.

Grammer, John. "A Thing Against Which Time Will Not Prevail: Pastoral and History in McCarthy’s South." Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 19-30. Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 27-42; rev. ed. 29-44.  Rpt. Bloom 9-22.

Grant, Natalie. "The Landscape of the Soul:  Man and the Natural World in The Orchard Keeper.” Hall and Wallach 61-68; rev. ed. 1:75-82.

Gray, Richard. "Recorded and Unrecorded Histories: Recent Southern Writing and Social Change.” The Southern State of Mind. Ed. Jan Nordby Gretlund. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999. 67-79. [McCarthy 72-74.]

——. Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2000. [McCarthy 442-464.]

——. Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. 185-86; 231; 234. [Brief comments on Child of God and about McCarthy as a Southern Writer.]

Graybill, Mark S. “‘Dying an Early Death?’: An Assessment of the State of Contemporary Southern Fiction.”  Confrontation 60/61 (Fall 1996/Wtr. 1997): 19-31.

——."‘Peeping Toms on History’: Barry Hannah’s Never Die as Postmodern Western.” Southern Literary Journal 33 (Fall 2000): 94-110. [Compares Never Die with Blood Meridian.]

Guillemin, George [Georg]. “'As of Some Site Where Life Had Not Succeeded’: Sorrow, Allegory, and Pastoralism in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 72-98. Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 92-130.

——.  “‘Awake from Dark to Dark’: The Use of Southern Intertextuality in Outer Dark.”  Cormac McCarthy.  Ed. Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold.  Spec. issue of Profils Américains 17 (2004): 89-108.

——.The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy.  College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2004.

——. “'Books Made out of Books’: Some Instances of Intertextuality with Southern Literature in Outer Dark.” Holloway 28-34.

——. “'See the Child’: The Melancholy Subtext of Blood Meridian.” Lilley 239-65.

Guinn, Matthew. “Atavism and the Exploded Metanarrative: Cormac McCarthy’s Journey to Mythoclasm.” After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. 91-109. Rev. as “Ruder Forms Survive: Cormac McCarthy’s Atavistic Vision.” Wallach 108-15.

Gunn, Susan C. "McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses." Explicator 54.4 (Summer 1996): 250-51.

Hada, Kenneth.  “McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Explicator 58.1 (Fall 1999): 57-60.

Hall, Wade. “The Continuing Vitality of Southern Literature: Six Books by Cormac McCarthy and Heather Ross Miller.” Twigs [Pikeville College, Pikeville, KY] 5 (1970): 273-303.

——. "The Hero as Philosopher and Survivor: An Afterword on The Stonemason and The Crossing.” Hall and Wallach 189-94.

——. "The Human Comedy of Cormac McCarthy.” Hall and Wallach 49-60; rev. ed. 1:61-73. Rpt. Bloom 53-64.

——, and Rick Wallach. Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy.  El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1995. 2^nd ed. titled Sacred Violence. 2 vols.  Vol. 1: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works.  Vol. 2: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels. 2002.

Harrison, Brady. “‘That immense and bloodslaked waste’: Negation in Blood Meridian.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 35-42.

Hawkins, Susan E.  “Cold War Cowboys and the Culture of Nostalgia.” Chollier 95-103.

Hickman, Trenton. “McCarthy’s Blood Matrix in the Border Trilogy.”  Southwestern American Literature  28.1 (Fall 2002): 19-29.

*Higgs, Robert J. “Sut Lovingood and the Hard No in Appalachian Literature (Part II).” Appalachian Heritage 21 (Winter 1993): 6-18.

Hillier, Russell M.  “‘In a Dark Parody’ of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: The Presence of Subversive Allegory in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.”  ANQ 19.4 (Fall 2006): 52-59.

Hirsch, François.  “I Find It Very Hard to Talk about Translations and about Translating.” Chollier 203-12.

Hobson, Fred. “The Savage South: An Inquiry into the Origins, Endurance, and Presumed Demise of an Image.” Virginia Quarterly Review 61 (Summer 1985): 377-95. [Very brief mention: 393-94]

——.  “Surveyors and Boundaries: Southern Literature and Southern Literary Scholarship after Mid-Century.”  Southern Review 27.4 (Oct. 1991): 739-55.  [McCarthy 754.]

Hoffman, Gerhard. “Strangeness, Gaps, and the Mystery of Life: Cormac McCarthy’s Southern Novels.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 42.2 (1997): 217-38.

Holloway, David. “Cormac McCarthy and the Search for Cognitive Agency.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 376-79.

——. “Creative Destruction, Primitive Accumulation, and the Imagination of Catastrophe in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Cormac McCarthy.  Ed. Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold.  Spec. issue of Profils Américains 17 (2004): 109-25.

——. “'A false book is no book at all’: The Ideology of Representation in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy.” Wallach 185-200.

——. The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

——. "‘A longing which has clouded their minds’: Seeking Transcendent Space in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy.” Holloway 40-48.

——. “Modernism, Nature, and Utopia: Another Look at ‘Optical Democracy’ in Cormac McCarthy’s Western Quartet.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 186-205.

——, ed.  Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami: Cormac McCarthy Society, 1999.

Horton, Matthew R. “’Hallucinated Recollections’: Narrative as Spatialized Perception of History in The Orchard Keeper.” Lilley 285-312.

Humphries, Jefferson, and John Lowe, eds. The Future of Southern Letters. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. [Scattered references.]

Hunt, Alexander [Alex]."McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Explicator 56.3 (Spring 1998): 158-60. Longer version: “Right and False Suns: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing and the Advent of the Atomic Age." Southwestern American Literature 23.2 (Spring 1998): 31-37.

——. "‘Strange Equality’: A Reading of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Wright and Kaplan 237-40.

Hyduke, Greg. “Dim Prosceniums, Squinty Eyeballs, Seeing Between the Lines, and a Strange Sweet Woe: An Examination of ‘Ne(i)ther’ Light, Visual Acuity, and Consciousness in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 62-65.

Jarrett, Robert L. Cormac McCarthy. NY: Twayne, 1997.

——. “Cormac McCarthy’s Sense of an Ending: Serialized Narrative and Revision in Cities of the Plain.” Lilley 313-42.

Jarrett, Robert.  “Genre, Voice and Ethos: McCarthy’s Perverse ‘Thriller’.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 74-96.

*——. “Revisioning the Western?: Three Recent Cases.” Cañon: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain American Studies Association 2 (Spring 1995): 24-51.

Johnson, Michael L.  New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture.  Lawrence: U P of Kansas, 1996.  [McCarthy 141-48.]

Josyph, Peter. "Blood Music: Reading Blood Meridian.” Hall and Wallach 169-88; rev. ed. 2:15-36.

——.“Child of God: Cormac McCarthy (1974).” The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock.  Vol. 1. New York: Facts on File, 2006.  255-56.

——.. “Getting the Voices Right: A Conversation with Robert Morgan About The Gardener’s Son.” Southern Quarterly 40.1 (Fall 2001): 121-31.

——.. “Losing Home: A Conversation with Ted Tally About All the Pretty Horses." Southern Quarterly 40.1 (Fall 2001): 132-46.

——. "Older Professions: The Fourth Wall of The Stonemason."  Southern Quarterly 36.1 (Fall 1997): 137-44. Rev. in Wallach 119-40.

——.  “Suttree and the Brass Ring:  Reaching for Thanksgiving in the Knoxville Gutter.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 220-35.

——. “Tragic Ecstasy: A Conversation with Harold Bloom about Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Southwestern American Literature 26.1 (Fall 2000): 7-20.  Rpt. as “Tragic Ecstasy: A Conversation about McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2: 205-21.

Keegan, James. “‘Save yourself’: The Boundaries of Theodicy and the Signs of The Crossing.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 44-61.

 Kiefer, Christian. "The Morality of Blood: Examining the Moral Code of The Crossing.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 26-37.

——. "Twisted Pair: Society and Progress in McCarthy’s Revisionist Westerns.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 390-93.

——. “The Weaver of the World: Views of God and Destiny in the Priest’s Tale in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 145-50.

Kim, Yoojin Grace. “’Then they all move on again’”: Knowledge and the Individual in Judge Holden’s Doctrine of War.” Bloom 169-82.

Kirves, Kyle. “Index of the Character Names in the Novels.” Wallach 303-85.

Kollin, Susan. “Genre and the Geographies of Violence: Cormac McCarthy and the Contemporary Western.” Contemporary Literature 42.3 (Fall 2001): 557-88.

Kreml, Nancy. "Stylistic Variation and Cognitive Constraint in All the Pretty Horses.” Hall and Wallach 137-48; rev. ed. 2:37-49. Rev. and expanded as “Implicatures of Styleswitching in the Narrative Voice of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses."  Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Ed. Carol Myers-Scotton. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.  41-61.

Kupfer, Joseph. “Swift Things Are Beautiful: Contrast in the Natural Aesthetic.”  Journal of Aesthetic Education 31.3 (Fall 1997): 1-14.  [McCarthy 2-3.]

Lachaud, Maxime.  “Carnivalesque Rituals and the Theological Grotesque in the Southern Novels of Harry Crews and Cormac McCarthy.” Chollier 61-71.

Lang, John. "Lester Ballard: McCarthy’s Challenge to the Reader’s Compassion.” Hall and  Wallach 87-94; rev. ed. 1:103-11.

Layman, Richard, ed.  “Cormac McCarthy, 1933-.”  First Printings of American Authors: Contributions toward Descriptive Checklists.  Vol. 2.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1978.  249.

Lilley, James D., ed. Cormac McCarthy: New Directions. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2002.

——. “’The hands of yet other puppets’: Figuring Freedom and Reading Repetition in All the Pretty Horses.” Wallach 272-87. 

——. "‘The Indian with a Camera’: Resistance and Representation in Silko and McCarthy.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 394-97.

——. “Introduction. ‘There Was Map Enough for Men to Read’: Storytelling, the Border Trilogy, and New Directions."  Lilley 1-15.

——. "“Of Whales and Men: The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy’s Environmental Imagination.”  Southern Quarterly 38.2 (Winter 2000): 111-22.  Rpt. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment.  Ed. Steven Rosendale.  Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2002.  149-64.

——. “Representing Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Desert Absolute’: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and the Dynamics of Vision.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 162-66.

Limón, José E. American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon P, 1998. 193-206, 212-13.

*Lincecum, Jerry Bryan.  “South by Southwest: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Novels.”  Literature of Region and Nation: Proceedings of the Sixth International Literature of Region and Nation Conference, 2-7 August 1996.  Ed. Winnifred M. Bogaards.  Saint John: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with U of New Brunswick in Saint John. 1998.  17-31.

Luce, Dianne C. "Ambiguities, Dilemmas, and Double-Binds in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Southwestern American Literature 26.1 (Fall 2000): 21-46.

——.  “The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God.” Lilley 171-98.

——. “The Confluence of Plato’s Republic and Mexican History in All the Pretty Horses.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 177-85.

——. “Cormac McCarthy.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II. Third Series. Ed. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. 143: 118-136. [Revised and expanded version of Cox (1980), q.v.]

——. “Cormac McCarthy: A Bibliography.” Southern Quarterly 30 (Summer 1992): 143-51. Revised and rpt. Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy. Ed. Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993. 195-210.  Updated, abbreviated version Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 72-84. [Lists scholarly articles from 1998-2000.]

        . “Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Garrett: A Literary Friendship.” Cormac McCarthy.  Ed. Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold.  Spec. issue of Profils Américains 17 (2004): 27-59.

——. "Cormac McCarthy’s First Screenplay, ‘The Gardener’s Son.’"  Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 51-71.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 69-94; rev. ed. 71-96.

——. “On the Trail of History in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Mississippi Quarterly 49 (Fall 1996): 843-49. [Essay-review of John Sepich’s Notes on Blood Meridian.]

——. “Remarks on the State of Cormac McCarthy Scholarship.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001): 7-11.

——. “The Road and the Matrix: The World as Tale in The Crossing.” Arnold and Luce, Perspectives, rev. ed. 195-219.

——. “Suttree’s Knoxville/ McCarthy’s Knoxville: A Slide Presentation.” Holloway 6-17.

——. “’They aint the thing’: Artifact and Hallucinated Recollection in Cormac McCarthy’s Early Frame-Works.” Wallach 21-36.  Rpt. Bloom 113-30.

——. “The Vanishing World of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 121-46.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 161-97.

——. "‘When You Wake’: John Grady Cole’s Heroism in All the Pretty Horses.” Hall and Wallach 155-67; rev. ed. 2: 57-70.

        . “White Caps, Moral Judgment, and Law in Child of God or, The ‘wrong blood’ in Community History.” Chollier 43-59.

*MacDonald, Andrew, and Gina MacDonald. "Heroism and Romance in All the Pretty Horses." Creative Screenwriting 7(Nov.-Dec. 2000): 44-46.

Madden, David.  Touching the Web of Southern Novelists.  Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2006.  [McCarthy 19-23, 167-73.]

Marius, Richard. "Suttree as Window into the Soul of Cormac McCarthy.” Hall and Wallach 1-15; rev. ed. 1:113-29.

*Marx, Lesley. “Border Stories: In the Saddle with Bourke, McCarthy and Peckinpah.” Fissions and Fusions. Ed. Lesley Marx, et al. [Bellville, South Africa: U of the Western Cape, 1997. 56-63.

Masters, Joshua J. “‘Witness to the Uttermost Edge of the World’: Judge Holden’s Textual Enterprise in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 40.1 (Fall 1998): 25-37.

McBride, Molly. “The Crossing’s Noble Savagery: The Wolf, the Indian, and the Empire.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2:71-82.

——. “From Mutilation to Penetration: Cycles of Conquest in Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses." Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 24-34.

McCoy, Karissa.  “Whiteness and the ‘Subject’ of Waste: The Art of Slumming in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 85-99.

McGilchrist, Megan Riley.  “The Adversarial Feminine in McCarthy’s Western Landscapes.” Chollier 83-93.

McMurtry, Kim. “The Maturation of John Grady Cole in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 197-200.

——. “'Some Improvident God’: Metaphysical Explorations in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southwestern American Literature 26.2 (Spr. 2001): 45-57. Rpt. Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2:143-57.

Messent, Peter. "All the Pretty Horses: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Western.” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 2.2 (Dec. 1994): 92-112.

——.“‘No Way Back Forever’: American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature.  Ed. William Blazek and Michael K. Glenday.  Liverpool, England: Liverpool UP, 2005.  128-56.

Metress, Christopher. “Via Negativa: The Way of Unknowing in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.” Southern Review 37.1 (Winter 2001): 147-54.

Millard, Kenneth. “Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian.” Contemporary American Fiction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 80-88. [Also 107-08.]

Mills, Jerry Leath. “Cormac McCarthy (1933— ).” Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. [286]-94. 

——. “Cormac McCarthy (1933-).”  Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary.  Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006.  268-69.

——. “Cormac McCarthy: A Great Tragic Writer.” Independent Weekly [Durham, NC] 1-7 June 1989: 9-10.

——. "Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century.” Southern Literary Journal 29.2 (Fall 1996): 2-17. Excerpted as “Is There a Dead Mule in It?” in Harper’s Nov. 1999: 33-36.

Mitchell, Jason P. "Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and the (De)Mythologizing of the American West.” Critique 41.3 (Spring 2000): 290-304.

Monk, Nick. “’An Impulse to Action, and Undefined Want’: Modernity, Flight, and Crisis in the Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2:83-103.

Moore, Ruth W. “Writers and Literary Clubs.” Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ed. Lucile Deaderick. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976. 439-55. [Very brief biographical sketch, 450-51.]

Moos, Dan. “Lacking the Article Itself: Representation and History in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 2 (Spring 2002): 23-39.

Morgan, Robert. “Cormac McCarthy: The Novel Raised from the Dead.”  Cormac McCarthy Journal 1 (Spring 2001):12-25.  Rpt. Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 1:9-21.

Morgan, Wesley G.  “Red Callahan in Suttree [sic]: The Actual and the Fictitious.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 210-19.

        .  “‘A season of death and epidemic violence’: Knoxville Rogues in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 195-209.

Morris, Betty W. "A Matrix of the Southwest in The Crossing.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 211-17.

Morris, Caroline. “They All Fall Down: Ego and Exclusion in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 1:163-69.

Morrison, Gail Moore. "All the Pretty Horses: John Grady Cole’s Expulsion from Paradise.” Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 173-93; rev. ed. 175-94.

Muck, Terry C.  “From American Dream to American Horizon:  The Religious Dimension in Louis L’Amour and Cormac McCarthy.”  Religion and Popular Culture in America.  Ed. Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.  56-76.

Neely, Jack. “Introduction: Excavating Literary Knoxville". Voices from the Valley: An Anthology of Knoxville Writers. Ed. Jeanne McDonald. Knoxville: Knoxville Writers’ Guild, 1994. ix-xxxii.

Nelson, Andrew. "Metaphysic or Metafiction: The Western Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Wright and Kaplan 263-66.

Noble, Donald. “The Future of Southern Writing.” The History of Southern Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 578-88. [One paragraph.]

O’Gorman, Farrell.  “Joyce and Contesting Priesthoods in Suttree and Blood Meridian.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 100-17.

Owens, Barcley.  Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels.  Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2000.  Excerpt reprinted as “Thematic Motifs in Cities of the Plain.” Bloom 95-111.

Palmer, Louis H., III. “‘Encampment of the Damned’: Ideology and Class in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 149-70.

——.“Southern Gothic and Appalachian Gothic: A Comparative Look at Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy.” Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 3 (1991): 166-76.

Parker, Hershel. "Acknowledgements.” Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. 2, 1851-1891. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002. xv. ["Cormac McCarthy persuaded Roger Payne and Lisa Harrow to welcome us to London . . . ."]

Parkes, Adam. “History, Bloodshed, and the Spectacle of American Identity in Blood Meridian.” Lilley 103-24.

Parrish, Tim. "The Killer Wears the Halo: Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, and the American Religion.” Hall and Wallach 25-39; rev. ed. 1:35-50. Rpt. Bloom 65-77.

*Parrish, Timothy L. and Elizabeth A. Spiller. “A Flute Made of Human Bone: Blood Meridian and the Survivors of American History.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 23 (1998): 461-81.

*Peebles, Stacey.  “Blood Consciousness: Menstrual Taboos and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Southwestern American Literature 26.2 (Spr. 2001): 37-43.

“‘Lo fantástico’: The Influence of Borges and Cortázar on the Epilogue of Cities of the Plain.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 105-09.

        .  “Suttree’s Soundscapes.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 137-48.

 *——.“Yuman Belief Systems and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45.2 (Summer 2003): 231-44.

  ——. “What Happens to Country: The World to Come in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 127-42.

Phillips, Dana. "History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian."  American Literature 68 (June 1996): 433-60.  Rpt. Lilley 17-46.

Pilkington, Tom. “Borders of Destiny.” World & I 7 (Sept.1992): 373-383. Rpt.: “Fate and Free Will on the American Frontier: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction.” Western American Literature 27 (Winter. 1993): 311-22.

Pitts, Jonathan. “Writing On: Blood Meridian as Devisionary Western.” Western American Literature 33.1 (Spring 1998): 7-25.

*Poland, Tim. “And the Word Becomes Horseflesh: The Unheard Discourse of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses." Southwestern American Literature 20 (Fall 1994): 45-56.

Polk. Noel.  “A Faulknerian Looks at Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 7-29.

Potts, James.  “McCarthy, Mac Airt and Mythology: Suttree and the Irish High King.”  Mississippi Quarterly 58.1-2 (Wtr.-Spr. 2004-05): 25-39.

Prather, William. "Absurd Reasoning in an Existential World: A Consideration of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” Hall and Wallach 103-14; rev. ed. 1:139-51.

——. “‘The color of this life is water’: History, Stones, and the River in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 30-59.

——. “’Like something seen through bad glass’: Narrative Strategies in The Orchard Keeper.” Wallach 37-54.

Price, David W.  History Made, History Imagined: Contemporary Literature, Poiesis, and the Past. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999.  [McCarthy 306-13.]

  Prince, Lynn Alison. “The Reflective Translator: Cormac McCarthy’s Works in German and French.” Holloway 62-70.

Priola, Marty. “Chess in the Border Trilogy.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 55-57.  Slightly rev. as “Games in the Border Trilogy.” Wallach 269-71.

——. “Cormac McCarthy.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Western Writers. Third Series. Ed. Richard H. Cracroft. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 256:162-73.

——. "‘Of the Telling there is no End’: Story and Storyteller in The Crossing.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 275-81.

——. "‘What’s he a judge of?’: Jurisprudential Attitudes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 398-400.

Ragan, David Paul. "Values and Structure in The Orchard Keeper."  Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 10-18.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 15-25; rev. ed. 17-27.

Rawley, James M. “The Myth that Loses, the Truth that Wins.” Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 92-104.

Rebein, Robert. "New West, or, the Borderlands.” Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 109-33, notes 189-93.

Reed, R. Dean. “Of Ancients and Moderns: Cosmology and Spirituality in The Crossing.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 401-04.

Reinharez, Isabelle.  “Are We Not All of Us in Our Way Cormac Fans?” Chollier 213-18.

Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield, and Suzanne Booker-Canfield. "Cormac McCarthy.” Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 1998. 257-68.

Robisch, S.K. “The Trapper Mystic: Werewolves in The Crossing.”  Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 50-54.  Rev. in Wallach 288-92.

Rothfork, John.  “Cormac McCarthy as Pragmatist.”  Critique 47.2 (Wtr. 2006): 201-14.

        .  “Language and the Dance of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Southwestern American Literature  30.1 (Fall 2004): 23-36.

        .  “Redemption as Language in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.”  Christianity and Literature 53.3 (Spring 2004): 385-97.

Rudnicki, Robert W. “Bearers of Messages: Ford and McCarthy.” Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1999. 123-47. [McCarthy 139-44].

Salter, Susan. "McCarthy, Cormac — 1933- .” Contemporary Authors. Ed. Ann Evory and Linda Metzger. Vol. 10. New Revision Ser. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. 314-15.

Sanborn, Wallis R., III.  Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

Sansom, Dennis.  “Learning from Art: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as a Critique of Divine Determinism.”  Journal of Aesthetic Education 41.1 (Spr. 2007): 1-19.

Scaggs, John.  “The Search for Lost Time: The Proustian Theme in Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain.” Chollier 73-82.

Schafer, William J. “Cormac McCarthy: The Hard Wages of Original Sin.” Appalachian Journal 4 (Winter 1977): 105-19.

Schopen, Bernard A. “‘They Rode On’: Blood Meridian and the Art of Narrative.” Western American Literature 30 (Summer 1995): 179-94.

Scoones, Jacqueline. “The World on Fire: Ethics and Evolution in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 99-120.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 131-60.

Sepich, John. “A ‘bloody dark pastryman’: Cormac McCarthy’s Recipe for Gunpowder and Historical Fiction in Blood Meridian.” Mississippi Quarterly 46 (Fall 1993): 547-63.

——. “The Dance of History in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Southern Literary Journal 24 (Fall 1991): 16-31.

——. Notes on Blood Meridian. Louisville: Bellarmine College Press, 1993.

——. "‘What kind of indians was them?’: Some Historical Sources in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 93-110.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 121-41; rev. ed. 123-43.

Shaviro, Steven. " ‘The Very Life of the Darkness’: A Reading of Blood Meridian."  Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 111-21.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 143-56;  rev. ed. 145-58.

Shaw, Patrick W. “Female Presence, Male Violence, and the Art of Artlessness in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 11-23.  Slightly rev. in Wallach 256-68.

——. Introduction. Cormac McCarthy’s West: The Border Trilogy Annotations. By James Bell. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2002. xv-xxii.

——. "The Kid’s Fate, the Judge’s Guilt: Ramifications of Closure in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian." Southern Literary Journal 30.1 (Fall 1997): 102-119.

Shelton, Frank W. “Suttree and Suicide.” Southern Quarterly 29 (Fall 1990): 71-83.

*Sickels, Robert C., and Marc Oxoby.  “In Search of a Further Frontier: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Critique  43.4 (Summer 2002): 347-59.

Simmons, Jessica. “Crossing Gendered Borders: Transsexualism in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 2 (Spring 2002): 56-58.

Simpson, Lewis P. The Brazen Face of History: Studies in the Literary Consciousness of America.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.  [McCarthy 263-64.]

        . “Southern Fiction.” The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Ed. Daniel Hoffman. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1979. 153-90.

Slethaug, Gordon E. Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction. Albany: State U of New York P, 2000. xv, 16-19, 24, 123, 131-54, 161, 164, 166-67, 170, 190.

Smith, Carlton, and Deborah Paes De Barros. “Singing in the (Post-Apocalyptic) Rain: Some High/Low Notes on Post/postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction.” American Studies International 33.1 (April 1995): 1-18. [McCarthy 8.]

Snyder, Phillip A. “Cowboy Codes in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 147-66.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 198-227.

Sørensen, Bent.  “Katabasis in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  Orbis Litterarum [Denmark] 60.1 (2005): 16-25.

Soto, Isabel.  “The Border Paradigm in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.”  Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands.  Ed. Jesds Benito and Ana Maria Manzanas.  Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002.  51-61.

*Spencer, Andrew Blair. “A Cowboy Looks at Reality: The Death of the American Frontier and the Illumination of the Cowboy Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses." Western Futures: Perspectives on the Humanities at the Millenium. Ed. Stephen Tchudi, et al. Reno: Halcyon P, 1999. 143-57.

Spencer, William C. “All the Pretty Horses.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Analyses Series, vol. 1. Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Osprey, FL: Beacham, 1996. 114-18.

——. “Altered States of Consciousness in Suttree." Southern Quarterly 35.2 (Winter 1997): 87-92.

——. “Cormac McCarthy.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Biography Series, vol. 2. Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Osprey, FL: Beacham, 1996. 1232-34.

——. "Cormac McCarthy’s Tragicomic Sidekicks: Gene Harrogate and Jimmy Blevins.” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 380-84.

——. "Cormac McCarthy’s Unholy Trinity: Biblical Parody in Outer Dark.” Hall and Wallach 69-76; rev. ed. 1:83-91.

——. “The Crossing.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Analyses Series, vol. 2. Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Osprey, FL: Beacham, 1996. 951-55.

——. “Evil Incarnate in Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy’s Seductive Judge.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 1995: 100-05.

*——. “On the Range of Styles in All the Pretty Horses.” Publications of the Mississippi Philogical Association. (2000): 55-61.

——. “The Seventh Direction, or Suttree’s Vision Quest.” Wallach 100-07.

——. “Suttree.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Analyses Series, vol. 7. Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Osprey, FL: Beacham, 1996. 4087-90.

       . “Suttree: Cormac McCarthy (1979).”  The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock.  Vol. 3. New York: Facts on File, 2006. 1240-42.

*       .  “Suttree: Linguistic Chameleon.”  Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association  (2003): 18-24.

——. “The Western Hero Unmasked in The Crossing.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 333-40.

*Spurgeon, Sara L. Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier.  College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2005. 

        . “‘Pledged in Blood’: Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Western American Literature 43.3 (Spring 1999): 24-44.  Rpt. Bloom 79-94.

——.  “The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness: Mythic Reconstructions in Blood Meridian.” Lilley 75-101.

Starrs, Paul F. “The Ways of Western [Death]: Mor(t)ality & Landscape in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels and Sergio Leone’s Films.” Wide Angle 15 (Oct. 1993): 62-74.

Stotter, Mike. “Cormac McCarthy.” Twentieth-Century Western Writers. 2nd ed. Ed. Geoff  Sadler. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. 450-51. [Briefly discusses Blood Meridian and Child of God as “western” novels.]

Stricker, Florence.  “‘This new yet unapproachable America’: (For) an Ethical Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels.” Chollier 147-61.

Sugg, Katherine.  “Multicultural Masculinities and the Border Romance in John Sayles’s Lone Star and Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  New Centennial Review 1.3 (Wtr. 2001): 117-54.

Sullivan, Nell. “Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Be Gone: The Circuit of Male Desire in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 167-85. Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 228-55.

——. "Cormac McCarthy and the Text of Jouissance.” Hall and Wallach 115-23; rev. ed. 1:153-61.

——. “The Evolution of the Dead Girlfriend Motif in Outer Dark and Child of God.” Wallach 68-77.

Sullivan, Walter. Death by Melancholy: Essays on Modern Southern Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1972. [Scattered brief references.]

——. “In Time of the Breaking of Nations: The Decline of Southern Fiction.” Southern Review new ser. 4 (Apr. 1968): 299-305. [Passing mention.]

——. A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1976. 70-72.

——. “Southern Writers in Spiritual Exile.” The Southern Review and Modern Literature, 1935-1985. Ed. Lewis P. Simpson, James Olney, and Jo Gulledge. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988. 107-15. Rpt. Walter Sullivan. In Praise of Blood Sports and Other Essays. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990. 38-48.

Sullivan, William.  “And More about Books: Now in a Bookstore Near You.”  English Journal 89.5 (May 2000): 157-58.  [Teaching All the Pretty Horses.] 

Tatum, Stephen. Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Continuum, 2002.

——. “Cormac McCarthy.” Updating the Literary West. Ed. Thomas J. Lyon, et. al. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1997: 475-88.

——. “The Solace of Animal Faces.” Arizona Quarterly 50.4 (Winter 1994): 133-56.

——. "Topographies of Transition in Western American Literature.” Western American Literature 32.4 (Winter 1998): 310-52.

Taylor, William D. “‘And there shall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth’: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark as a Vision of Retribution in a World without Grace through Christ.” Carson-Newman Studies 8 (Fall 1994): 33-39.

*Tebbetts, Terrell L. “In Conflict with Himself: John Grady’s Quest in All the Pretty Horses.” Philological Review 27.2 (Fall 2001): 37-58.

*       .“Sanctuary Redux: Faulkner’s Logical Pattern of Evil in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.”  Philological Review 32.1 (Spr. 2006): 69-81.

Todd, Raymond. “Kafka’s Mountain: Notes Passed During a Screening of All the Pretty Horses.” Hall and Wallach,  rev. ed. 2:189-204.

Traber, Daniel S. “‘Ruder Forms Survive,’ or Slumming for Subjectivity: Self-Marginalization in Suttree.” Southern Quarterly 37.2 (Winter 1999): 33-46.

Trenz, Brandon. “"McCarthy, Charles, Jr. 1933- (Cormac McCarthy.” Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. Ed.Susan M. Trosky. New revision ser. Vol. 42. Detroit: Gale,1994. 303-06. Rev. ed. Ed. Daniel Jones and John D. Jorgenson. New revision ser. Vol. 69. 1999. 334-39.

Trotignon, Béatrice.  “McCarthy’s Use of the Present Tense in Blood Meridian.” Chollier 191-202.

       . “Detailing the Wor(l)d.” Holloway 18-27. Rev. as “Detailing the Wor(l)d in Suttree.” Wallach 89-99. 

Twomey, Jay, “Tempting the Child: The Lyrical Madness of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Southern Quarterly 37.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1999): 255-65.

Vanderheide, John. “The Process of Elimination: Tracing the Prodigal’s Irrevocable Passage through Cormac McCarthy’s Southern and Western Novels.”  Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 110-16.  Rev. in Wallach 177-82.

       . “Varieties of Renunciation in the Works of Cormac McCarthy.” Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 62-73.

Verdun, Jean-Michel.  “Hybridization in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Chollier 163-68.

Vescio, Bryan.  “Strangers in Everyland: Suttree, Huckleberry Finn, and Tragic Humanism.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 60-71.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. “The South as Universe.” South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Fred Hobson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002. 25-55. [McCarthy 51-52].

Wallach, Rick. “Cormac McCarthy’s Metaphors of Antiquity and Deep Time.” Chollier 105-14.

——. "Editor’s Introduction: Cormac McCarthy’s Canon as Accidental Artifact."  Wallach xiv-xvi.

“Foreword.”  The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy.  By David Holloway.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.  xi-xiv.

——. “From Beowulf to Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy’s Demystification of the Martial Code.”  Southern Quarterly 36.4 (Summer 1998): 113-20.  Rev. in Lilley 199-214.

——. "Introduction: The McCarthy Canon Reconsidered."  Hall and Wallach xv-xx.

——. "Judge Holden, Blood Meridian’s Evil Archon.” Hall and Wallach 125-36; rev. ed. 2:1-13.

——, ed. Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.

——. “Prefiguring Cormac McCarthy: The Early Short Stories.” Wallach 15-20.

——. “Sam Chamberlain’s Judge Holden and the Iconography of Science in Mid-19th Century Nation-Building." Southwestern American Literature 23.1 (Fall 1997): 9-17. [No mention of McCarthy, but provides historical/literary context for Blood Meridian.]

——. “Theater, Ritual, and Dream in the Border Trilogy.” Hall and Wallach, rev. ed. 2:159-77.

——. “Three Dreams: the Bizarre Epilogue of Cities of the Plain.” Holloway 57-61.

Walsh, Chris.  “There’s No Place Like Holme:  The Quest to Find a Place for McCarthy’s Southern Fiction.” Chollier 31-42.

Watson, Jay.  “Lighting out of Civil Rights Territory: Suttree, the Quentin Problem, and the Historical Unconscious.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 72-84.

Wegner, John. “’Mexico para los Mexicanos’: Revolution, Mexico, and McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Southwestern American Literature 25.1 (Fall 1999): 67-73.  Slightly rev. in Wallach 249-55.

——. “’Wars and rumors of wars’ in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southern Quarterly 38.3 (Spring 2000): 59-71.   Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Companion 73-91.

——. “Whose Story Is It?: History and Fiction in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Southern Quarterly 36.2 (Winter 1998): 103-10.

Welker, Robert L. “Comac [sic] McCarthy.” Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979. 290.

Wesley, Marilyn C.  Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2003. [McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: 62-80, 185-87.

White, Edmund. “Southern Belles Lettres: Cormac McCarthy.” The Burning Library: Essays. Ed. David Bergman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 321-26.

Wilhelm, Randall S.  “‘The Wrath of the Path’: Spatial Politics and Municipal Powers in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 118-36.

*Wilkerson, K.E. “Regions of the Damned: Cormac McCarthy as Regional Writer.” Hudson Valley Regional Review—A Journal of Regional Studies 11 (Mar. 1994): 11-29.

Winchell, Mark Royden. “Inner Dark: or, The Place of Cormac McCarthy.” Southern Review new ser. 26 (Apr. 1990): 293-309.

Witek, Terri. "‘He’s hell when he’s well’: Cormac McCarthy’s Rhyming Dictions."  Shenandoah 41.3 (Fall 1991): 51-66.  Rpt. Wallach 78-88.

——. “Reeds and Hides: Cormac McCarthy’s Domestic Spaces.” Southern Review 30 (Jan. 1994): 136-42.

Woodson, Linda Townley. "Deceiving the Will to Truth: The Semiotic Foundation of All the Pretty Horses.” Hall and Wallach 149-54; rev. ed. 2:51-56.

——. “De los herejes y huérfanos: The Sound and Sense of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction.” Wallach 201-08.

——. “Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie: A Kristevan Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction.” Lilley 267-84.

——. “The Lighted Display Case.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on the Emerging Literature of the Southwest Culture (privately distributed). El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1996. 369-78.

——. "‘The Lighted Display Case’: A Nietzschean Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction.” Southern Quarterly 38.4 (Summer 2000): 48-60.

——.“Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Identity in Suttree.” Cormac McCarthy Journal  4 (2005): 171-83.

        .  “‘. . .you are the battleground’: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism in No Country for Old Men.”  Cormac McCarthy Journal 5 (2006): 5-26.

Wright, Will, and Steven Kaplan, eds.  The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and Society. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, U of Southern Colorado, 1996.

Young, Thomas D., Jr.  "The Imprisonment of Sensibility: Suttree."  Southern Quarterly 30.4 (Summer 1992): 72-92.  Rpt. Arnold and Luce, Perspectives 95-120; rev. ed. 97-122. 

Young, Thomas Daniel. “A Second Generation of Novelists.” The History of Southern Literature. Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 466-69. [Brief mention.]

——. Tennessee Writers. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1981. 99-107.

Zacharasiewicz, W. “Southern Writers and Their Readers in France and in the German-Speaking Countries of Europe.” Southern Quarterly 34 (Summer 1996): 81-97. [Very brief mention, and a partial listing of McCarthy’s books in French translations.]

*Zheng, Jianqing.  “The Visual Effect in All the Pretty Horses.”  Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association. 2002: 39-45.

Andersen, Elisabeth Francisca.  “A String in the Maze: The Mythos of Cormac McCarthy.”  U of California, Berkeley, 2005.

*Bell, James Luther. “Contextualizing Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Border Trilogy’: An Annotative Approach.”  Texas Tech U, 2000.

*Brannon, William Carl, Jr.  “Riding for a Fall: Genre, Myth, and Ideology in Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels.”  Texas Tech U, 2003.

*Bourassa, Alan Tourney. “Impersonal Creatures: Modalities of the Non-Human in Faulkner, Wharton and the Anglo-American Novel.” Vanderbilt U, 1999.

*Bowers, James Mackey. "The Malevolent Imagination and Murderous Art: The Fiction of Charles Baxter, Steven Millhauser, and Cormac McCarthy.”  Florida State U, 1999.

Campbell, Christopher Dallas.  “Resisting the Urge to Believe Terrible Things: Cormac McCarthy’s Quest.”  U of Virginia, 2002.

Cant, John.  “Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism.”  U of Essex [England], 2002.

*Clay, Kevin Mark. “Collaborations of God and Matter: An Investigation into the Ontology of Cormac McCarthy.” Tarleton State U, 1996.

*Coppinger, Stanley Kenneth. “Searching for a Moral Center in Cormac McCarthy.”  Baylor U, 2001.

*Cremean, David. “With God Obsessed: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Bowling Green State U, 2001.

Curtis, Diana Sylvia.  “Heroes, Fences, and Lost Children: Dissolving Dreams of Manifest Destiny in the American Novel, 1850-2000.”  Texas Tech U, 2002.

*Dawson, Charles Robert Eliot. “Writing the Memory of Rivers: Story, Ecology and Politics in Some Contemporary River Writing.” U of British Columbia, 1999.

DeBonis, Joseph Alex.  “A Butterfly, A Cannonball, and a Sneeze: Notions of Chaos Theory in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.” Strange Houses.  U of Cincinnati, 2006.  216-31.

Ellis, Jay.  “No Mind’s Compass: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”  New York U, 2003.

*Fagel, Brian David. “Spirit Lessons: Post-Nuclear American Fiction and the Spirituality of Survival.” U of Chicago, 2000.

*Gaylord, Joshua Alden. “Holy Books, Poison Ink: Narrative Mediation in Faulkner and Postmodernism.” New York U, 2000.

Gibson, Miles Robert.  “Proud Flights into Vexed Territory:  The Ironic Sublime in The Sound and the Fury, Invisible Man, Blood Meridian, and White Noise. U of Virginia, 2005.

Giemza, Bryan Albin.  “Mavericks of Religion: The Irish Outliers of Southern Literature.”  U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.

*Graybill, Mark Steven. “Theorizing the Southern Postmodern.” U of South Carolina, 1998.

Guinn, Matthew Wendell. “The Tarnished Icon: Myth and History in Post-Renascence Southern Fiction.”  U of South Carolina, 1998.

*Gwinner, Donovan R. “‘A wasteland fortunes’: History, Destiny, and Cultural Frontiers in American Literature.”  U of Arizona, 2001.

*Hada, Kenneth Eugene. “Crossings: Conflicting Voices in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  U of Texas, Arlington, 2000.

Hamilton, Geoff.  “Prophets of Disaffect: Antisocial Individualism in the Contemporary American Novel.”  U of Toronto [Canada], 2005.

*Hayes, Justin Cord. “A Path to Nowhere: Violence, Sex, and Humor in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God and Suttree.”  U of Nevada Las Vegas, 1996.

*Hickman, Trenton Larry. “ Border Literatures in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Retheorizing Spaces of Betweenness.”  State U of New York, Stony Brook, 2000.

*King, Rosemary A. "United States-Mexico Borderland Narratives: Geopoetic Representations from the Mexican American War to the Present."  Arizona State U, 2000.

Knowlton, Jennifer Hope.  “@#&)#@*((* [sic]- Instances of Non-Linear Dynamics and the Anti-Pastoral in 20^th/21^st-Century Literature.”  The Evanescence of Harry Wait.  U of Denver, 2002. 1-39.

Lasco, Mary McBride.  “Writing against the Empire: McCarthy, Erdrich, Welch and McMurtry.”  Texas A & M U, 2002.

*Lindsay, Creighton. “The Rhetoric of Modern American Pastoral.”  U of Oregon, 1996.

*McCage, Crystal Dawn. “Religious and Literary Motifs in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Texas Woman’s U, 2000.

McCoy, Karissa.  “Re-writing Region, Reconstructing Whiteness: Appalachia and the ‘Place’ of Whiteness in American Culture, 1930-2003.”  Vanderbilt U, 2004.

*McKirdy, Tiffany.  “’The distant pandemonium of the sun’: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”  U of Glasgow, 2002.

*McVoy, Sarah Lyn. "Deconstructing the Stereotype of Rural Appalachian Religion through the Examination of Four Modern Appalachian Novels.” U of North Carolina at Asheville, 2000.

*Metherd, Mary Swift. “Within Two Worlds: A Case for Intra-American Literature.”  U of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Miner, J.E. "Nihilism in the Fiction of Herman Melville and Cormac McCarthy.”  U of New England [Australia], 1997.

Mirarchi, Steven A.  “Faith of the Unbelievers: Contemporary American Fiction Questions God.”  Brandeis U, 2002.

Mische, Monica.  “Agency, Temporality, and Students’ Positionings: Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature and Writing.”  Catholic U of America, 2004.

*Nelson, Andrew. “Intercultural Violence: The Rhetorics of Representation in Western American Culture.”  Texas A&M U, 1996.

*Ojeda, Maria del Pilar.  “Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and John Grady Cole: Unhorsing the Figures of the Conquistador and the Cowboy in America.”  Texas Tech U, 2002.

*Owens, Jay Barcley. “Cultural Myths in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwestern Novels.”  Washington State U, 1998.

Peebles, Stacey L.  “‘There It Is’: Writing Violence in Three Modern American Combat Novels.”  U of Texas at Austin, 2004.

Potts, James Basil, III. “Sabers Up!: Masculinities in the Fictions of William Faulkner, James Dickey, Barry Hannah and Cormac McCarthy.” U of South Carolina, 2001. [McCarthy 256-324; 329-32.]

Prather, William. “An Existentialist Reading of the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” U of Georgia, 2001.

*Prince, Lynn Alison. "Cormac McCarthy at Home and Abroad: Translation, Reception, Interpretation.”  U of Massachusetts, 2000.

*Rebein, Robert. "Return of the Native: The Place of American Fiction after Postmodernism.” State U of New York at Buffalo, 1995.

*Robisch, Sean Kipling. “Big, Holy Dog: The Wolf in North American Literature.”  Purdue U, 1998.

*Rudnicki, Robert Walter. “The Fugal Self: Walker Percy’s Semiotic Ontology in the Novels of Faulkner, McCullers, Warren, Ellison, and McCarthy.” Texas A&M U, 1996.

Sanborn, Wallis Remsen, III.  “Animal Presentation in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy.”  Texas Tech U, 2003.

Schaub, Joseph Henry, Jr.  “Regional Borderlands: Contemporary Southern Authors Go West.”  U of South Carolina, 2001.

*Scoones, Jacqueline. “Dwelling Poetically: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Fiction.”  U of California, Irvine, 2000.

Spencer, William C. “The Extremities of Cormac McCarthy: The Major Character Types.” U of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1993.

*Talbot, Jill Lynn. “This is not an Exit: The Road Narrative in Contemporary American Literature and Film.”  Texas Tech U, 1999.

*Thurman, Alexander C. “Simultaneous Diversity: Discontinuity, Entanglement, and Contemporary American Fiction.”  New York U, 2000.

*Wegner, John. “Overcoming the Regional Burden: History, Tradition, and Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”  U of North Texas, 1998.

Wrede, Theda.  “Desiring the Southwest: Gender, Loss, and Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction.”  U of South Carolina, 2006.

Young, Thomas D., Jr. “Cormac McCarthy and the Geology of Being."  Miami U, 1990.

*Bourne, Ashley Lynn.  “‘The immappable world of our journey’: The Re-emergent Medieval Dream Forms in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” North Carolina State U, 2003.

Causey, Joel. “‘The way of the world is not fixed in any place’: An Existential Reading of Billy Parham’s Journey through Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.”  Texas Christian U, 1999.

Crews, Michael Lynn.  “The Narrative Matrix: The Spiritual Vision of Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing.”  U of Texas at El Paso, 2004.

Grant, Natalie. “Religion, Realism, and Surrealism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy." Western Carolina U, 1993.

Handran, Michael Francis.  “Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction:  A Moral Response to Nihilism.”  Tarleton State U, 2006.

Jensen, Ian K.  “Hegel, Modernity, and Telos in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwestern Novels:  An Inquiry into McCarthy’s Philosophical Position.”  U of Montana, 2006.

Kiefer, Christian. "The Morality of Blood: Examining the Hero in Revisionist Westerns.”  California State U, Sacramento, 1997.

*McMurtry, Kim. “Puppets at the Hands of Other Puppets: Deism in the Later Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”  Western Carolina U, 1997.

Murray, Megan Baldrige.  “Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing: A Reading of Billy Parham’s Crossings from Cowboy to Quester to Absurd Protagonist.”  California State U, Dominguez Hills, 2006.

Olney, Alexander Ian. "Form and Motion: The Dialogic Mythology of Cormac McCarthy.”  U of South Carolina, 1997.

*Palmer, Louis H., III.  “The Use of the Double or Doppelganger in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”  Appalachian State U, 1991.

Sepich, John. “Notes Toward an Explication of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”  U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989.

"Author Lives in Blount.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 6 Oct. 1968: F5.

Fields, Pat. “Knox Native McCarthy’s ‘Outer Dark’ Second Novel Gets Good Reviews.” Knoxville Journal 7 Oct. 1968: A8.

Jordan, Richard. “‘Just Write’ Says Successful Author.” University of Tennessee Daily Beacon 28 Jan. 1969: 6.

"‘Gardner’s [sic] Son,’ on PBS This Week, Written by Louisvillian.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 2 Jan. 1977: G7. [Includes brief interview with McCarthy.]

Morrow, Mark. "Cormac McCarthy.” Images of the Southern Writer. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985. 52-53. [Account of photographing McCarthy includes a few comments made by the writer.]

Wallace, Garry. "Meeting McCarthy.” Southern Quarterly 30 (Summer 1992): 134-39.

Woodward, Richard B. “Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction.” New York Times Magazine 19 Apr. 1992: 28-31+. [Substantial interview.]

Woodward, Richard B.  “Cormac Country.”  Vanity Fair Aug. 2005: 98, 100, 103-04. [Substantial Interview.]

Anon. “Americans in Debt.” Times Literary Supplement 10 Mar. 1966: 185.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 33 (1 Mar. 1965): 271.

Anon. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 41 (Summer 1965): lxxx.

[Baker, Phil].  “Paperbacks.”  Sunday Times [London] 27 Mar. 1994: Books sec.: 14.

Balla, Phil. Appalachian Journal 10 (Summer 1983): 396-99. [Review of the 1982 Ecco Press paperback reissue.]

Byerly, Mary. “Haunting Memory.” North American Review n.s.2.4 (Sept. 1965): 62.

Carl, Carol. “Carol Carl Reviews McCarthy Book.” Citizen Tribune [Morristown TN] 23 May 1976: C4.

Craig, David. “Tanks, Trees.” New Statesman 71 (11 Mar. 1966): 347-48.

Dykeman, Wilma. “Cormac McCarthy’s Book Impressive.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 30 May 1965: F2.

Edelstein, Arthur. “In the South, Two Good Stories, One Stereotype."National Observer 4 (5 July 1965): 17.

Frakes, James R. “Juicy Fruit.” New York Harold Tribune Book Week 125(4 July 1965): 14.

Hicks, Granville. “Six Firsts for Summer.” Saturday Review 48 (12 June1965): 35-36.

Jackson, Katherine Gauss. “Books in Brief.” Harper’s 231 (July 1965): 112.

M.A.M. Antiquarian Bookman 36 (4 Oct. 1965): 1222.

Murray, James G. America 112 (12 June 1965): 866.

Pfrogner, Barbara. Library Journal 90 (1 May 1965): 2158, 2160.

Prescott, Orville. “Still Another Disciple of William Faulkner.” New York Times 114 (12 May 1965): M49.

Shrapnel, Norman. "Echoes from the Corridors.” Manchester Guardian Weekly 94 (17 Mar. 1966): 10.

Sullivan, Walter. “Worlds Past and Future: A Christian and Several from the South.” Sewanee Review 73 (Autumn 1965): 719-26.

Tibbetts, A. M. “A Fiction Chronicle.” Southern Review new ser. 3 (Jan. 1967): 186-96. [Very brief mention.]

Trachtenberg, Stanley. "Black Humor, Pale Fiction.” Yale Review 55 (Oct. 1965): 144-49.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 36 (1 July 1968): 714.

Anon. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 45 (Winter 1969): viii.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 194 (1 July 1968): 53-54.

Anon. “A Southern Parable.” Time 92 (27 Sept. 1968): E5.

Anon. “Wandering the Warrens.” Times Literary Supplement 4 Dec. 1970: 1409.

Coles, Robert. “The Empty Road.” New Yorker 45 (22 Mar. 1969): 133+. Rpt. in Farewell to the South. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. 119-26.

Corrington, John William. "Cormac McCarthy’s Novel Reaches for Infinity.” National Observer 7 (11 Nov. 1968): 23.

Cruttwell, Patrick. “Plumbless Recrements.” Washington Post Book World 2 (24 Nov. 1968): 18.

Davenport, Guy. “Appalachian Gothic.” New York Times Book Review 73 (29 Sept. 1968), sec. 7: 4.

Halio, Jay L. “Fantasy and Fiction.” Southern Review new ser. 7 (Apr. 1971): 635-47.

Hicks, Granville. Saturday Review 51 (21 Dec. 1968): 22.

Lask, Thomas. “Southern Gothic.” New York Times 118 (23 Sept. 1968): 33.

Matthews, Jack. Masterplots 1969 Annual: Magill’s Literary Annual. Ed. Frank N. Magill. New York: Salem, 1970. 258-60.

Pfrogner, Barbara. Library Journal 93 (15 Sept. 1968): 3157.

Rogers, Michael. “Classic Returns.” Library Journal 118 (1 Sept. 1993): 232. [Notice of the Vintage paperback reissue of Outer Dark and Child of God.]

Sullivan, Walter. ” ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ Part II: The Novel in the Gnostic Twilight.” Sewanee Review 78 (Oct. 1970): 654-64.

Yardley, Jonathan. “The New Old Southern Novel.” Partisan Review 40 (Spring 1973): 286-93.

Anon. “Depraved.” Atlantic Monthly May 1974: 128.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 41 (1 Nov. 1973): 1224-25.

Anon. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 50 (Spring 1974): lvi.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 204 (29 Oct. 1973): 31.

Asrelsky, Arnold. Library Journal 99 (15 Jan. 1974): 153.

Brickner, Richard P. “A Hero Cast out, Even by Tragedy.” New York Times Book Review 13 Jan. 1974, sec. 7: 6-7.

Broyard, Anatole. “ ‘Daddy Quit,’ She Said.” New York Times 123 (5 Dec. 1973): 45. Reprinted, slightly revised, in Aroused by Books. New York: Random House, 1974. 281-83.

Buckler, Robert. “Eleri and Greenery.” Listener 93 (1 May 1975): 590.

Coles, Robert. “The Stranger.” New Yorker 50 (26 Aug. 1974): 87-90.

Foster, Roy. "Downhill-billy.” Times Literary Supplement 25 Apr. 1975: 445.

Grumbach, Doris. “Practitioner of Ghastliness.” New Republic 170 (9 Feb. 1974): 26-28.

Leiter, Robert. Commonweal 100 (29 Mar. 1974): 9092.

Perkins, Bill. “Mined-out Territory.” National Observer 13 (12 Jan. 1974): 21.

Prescott, Peter S. Newsweek 83 (7 Jan. 1974): 63+.

Rogers, Michael. [See reviews of Outer Dark.]

Sage, Lorna. “The Edge of Hysteria.” Observer 6 Apr. 1975: 30.

Yardley, Jonathan. "Alone, Alone, All, All Alone . . .” Washington Post Book World 13 Jan. 1974: 1.

Kriegsman, Alan. "Public TV’s ‘Visions’ of Expanded Dramatic and Creative Horizons.” Washington Post 39 (16 Jan. 1977): E3.

Anon. Booklist 75 (15 Jan. 1979): 796.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 46 (1 Dec. 1978): 1323-24.

Anon. New York Times Book Review 97 (30 Aug. 1992), sec. 7: 24. [Brief notice of the Vintage International paperback reissue.]

Anon. Publishers Weekly 214 (25 Dec. 1978): 54.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 230 (12 Sept. 1986): 91. [Notice of the Vintage paperback reissue.]

Anon. Washington Post Book World 22 (28 June 1992): 12. [Notice of the Vintage International paperback reissues of Suttree and Blood Meridian.]

Adams, Phoebe Lou. Atlantic Monthly 243 (Mar. 1979): 135.

Algren, Nelson. “A Memorable American Comedy by an Original Storyteller.” Chicago Tribune Book World 28 Jan. 1979, sec. 7: 1.

Broyard, Anatole. “Where all Tales Are Tall.” New York Times 128 (20 Jan. 1979): 19. Rpt. Books of the Times: The New York Times Daily Book Reviews, 1979. New York: Arno, 1980. 35-36.

Charyn, Jerome. “Doomed Huck.” New York Times Book Review 18 Feb. 1979, sec. 7: 14-15.

Crace, Jim. “Tribal Views.” New Statesman 99 (2 May 1980): 682.

Davenport, Guy. “Silurian Southern.” National Review 31 (16 Mar. 1979): 368-69.

Foote, Shelby. Letter. Memphis Press-Scimitar 17 Feb. 1979: 8. [Letter to the book review editor in response to J. Z. Howard’s review of Suttree, q.v.]

Haynes, Michael A. Library Journal 104 (15 Jan. 1979): 211.

Howard, J. Z. “ ‘A Masterpiece of Filth’: Portrait of Knoxville Forgets to be Fair.” Memphis Press-Scimitar 20 Jan. 1979: 6.

O’Connor, Patricia T. “New and Noteworthy.” New York Times Book Review 21 Dec. 1986: sec. 7: 24. [Notice of the Vintage paperback reissue.]

Rothstein, Edward. “A Homologue of Hell on a River of Death.” Washington Post 104 (19 Mar. 1979): B:2.

Rudman, Frank. Spectator 244 (24 May 1980): 21.

Ryan, William G. American Journal of Psychiatry 149 (Dec. 1992): 1747-48.

Salmans, Sandra. "Down and out in Knoxville.” Times Literary Supplement 2 May 1980: 500.

Speer, Steve. Wired 7(Feb. 1999): 142.

Sullivan, Walter. “Model Citizens and Marginal Cases: Heroes of the Day.” Sewanee Review 87 (Apr. 1979): 337-44.

——. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 55 (Summer 1979): 102.

Wickenden, Dorothy. New Republic 180 (10 Mar. 1979): 46.

Wolff, Geoffrey. “Deadbeats, Live Wires: Hanging out with McCarthy.” Esquire 91 (27 Mar. 1979): 78, 80.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 53 (1 Jan. 1985): 13.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 227 (18 Jan. 1985): 63.

Anon. Washington Post Book World [See reviews of Suttree.]

Arnold, Edwin T. Appalachian Journal 13 (Fall 1985): 103-04.

——. Magill’s Literary Annual: Books of 1985. Ed. Frank Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1986. 67-71.

Baines, Bill. Western American Literature 21 (Spring 1986): 59-60.

Blom, J. M. and L. R. Leavis. “Current Literature 1989.” English Studies 71.5 (Oct. 1990): 426-38. [Notice of the Picador edition.]

Booth, Stanley. “‘Blood Meridian’ is Powerful Story of the Old West.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution 14 Apr. 1985: H:10.

Burgess, Edwin B. Library Journal 110 (1 Mar. 1985): 104.

Cheuse, Alan. USA Today 3 (8 Mar. 1985):D3.

Hall, Wade. Louisville Courier-Journal 23 June 1985: I9.

Hislop, Andrew. “The Wild Bunch.” Times Literary Supplement 21-27 Apr. 1989: 436.

J. B. Booklist 81 (1 Mar. 1985): 928.

James, Caryn. "Is Everybody Dead around Here?” New York Times Book Review 28 Apr. 1985, sec. 7: 31.

Johnson, Larry. Mississippi Arts & Letters 2.5 (July/Aug. 1985): 36-39.

*Kelton, Elmer. “Black Hearts of the West.” Dallas Morning News 16 June 1985: 11C.

Longley, John Lewis, Jr. “The Nuclear Winter of Cormac McCarthy.” Virginia Quarterly Review 62 (Autumn 1986): 746-50. [Essay-review.]

McNamee, Gregory.  “Anniversaries . . . .”  Kirkus Reviews  1 July 2005: 696.

Nolan, Tom. Los Angeles Times Book Review 9 June 1985: B2.

O’Brien, Geoffrey. “Cowboys and Nothingness.” The Village Voice Literary Supplement 15 July 1986: 48.

Sullivan, Walter. "About Any Kind of Meanness You Can Name.” Sewanee Review 93 (Fall 1985): 649-56.

Walker, Dale. "McCarthy Conjures Terrifying Image of the West.” Rocky Mountain News Sunday Magazine 25 Feb. 1990: 30M. Rpt. National Tombstone Epitaph: The Historic Monthly Journal of the Old West 18 (Apr. 1991).

——. “Some Literary Masterpieces Can Make Reading an Experience.” El Paso Herald Post 6 Oct. 1986.

Anon. Kirkus Reviews 60 (1 Apr. 1992): 420.

Anon. New York Times Book Review 97 (31 May 1992), sec. 7: 23. [Brief notice.]

Anon. New Yorker 10 Aug. 1992: 79.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 239 (16 Mar. 1992): 64.

Anon. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 68 (Autumn 1992): 128.

Ahearn, Kerry. Western American Literature 28 (Summer 1993): 182-84.

Allen, Bruce. “Horses and Men.” World & I 7 (Sept. 1992): 365-72.

Amidon, Stephen.  “South of the Border.”  Sunday Times [London] 11 Apr. 1993, Books sec.: 12.

Amiran, Eyal. “Riding against the Plot.” American Book Review 14 (Feb. - Mar. 1993): 16, 23.

Arnold, Edwin. “Cormac McCarthy Worth the Wait.” Charlotte Observer 10 May 1992: D5.

Bell, Madison Smartt. “The Man Who Understood Horses.” New York Times Book Review 97 (17 May 1992), sec. 7: 9, 11.

Bell, Vereen. “‘Between the Wish and the Thing the World Lies Waiting.’” Southern Review 28 (Autumn 1992): 920-27. [Essay-review.]

Blais, Madeleine. "A Satisfying Exchange between Female Reader and Male Writer.” Boston Globe 5 July 1992: A28.

Bradfield, Scott. “When the Mystery is that There is no Mystery.” The Independent [London] (17 April 1993): 29. [Review of the Picador edition.]

Brown, Larry. Dear Reader. Oxford, Miss.: Square Books, 1992. 3.

Burn, Gordon. “Way out, West.” The Independent [London] (4 April 1993): 32. [Review of the Picador edition.]

Caldwell, Gail. “Cormac McCarthy’s High Frontier.” Boston Globe 3 May 1992: B41, 44.

*Cheuse, Alan. “A Fateful Journey.” Dallas Morning News 3 May 1992: 8J.

Cheney, Fred.  “The Top Ten.”  English Journal 85.2 (Feb. 1996): 92-93.

Clarke, Roger. “High Plains Drifter not Plain Enough.” Spectator 270 (17 Apr. 1993): 26-27.

Coffey, Michael. "New Grit: The Dawn of the McCarthy Era.” Village Voice 37 (19 May 1992): 70.

Conaway, Daniel. Letter to editor. Times Literary Supplement 30 Apr. 1993: 15. [Reply to the review by Sutherland.]

*Cook, Bruce. “‘Little Horses’ Scores Best-Selling Success for McCarthy.” Daily News of Los Angeles 12 July 1992: L12.

Cooper, Douglas. Letter to editor. Times Literary Supplement 30 Apr. 1993: 15. [Reply to the review by Sutherland.]

*Costello, Gerald M. “Plain Beauty.” U.S. Catholic 58 (May 1993): 48-51.

Dachslager, Earl L. “From McCarthy Comes a Wonderful Novel in the Mark Twain Tradition.” Houston Chronicle 19 Apr. 1992, “Zest” sec.: 21, 23.

DeMarinis, Rick. “Even Cowboys Get the Blues.” Newsday 26 Apr. 1992, “Fanfare” sec.: 33.

Dockery, Bill. "‘Pretty Horses’ Lessons: Small Choices Have Large Consequences; Beauty, Pain Inextricably Linked.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 10 May, 1992: Showtime sec.: 15.

Donoghue, Denis. “Dream Work.” New York Review of Books 40 (24 June 1993): 5-10. [A largely unappreciative essay-review which includes plot summaries and assessments of all six novels.]

Eder, Richard. “John’s Passion.” Los Angeles Times Book Review 17 May 1992: 3, 13.

Fackler, Elizabeth. “‘Pretty Horses’ a Melancholy Tale of Humanity.” El Paso Times 11 Oct. 1992: 2F.

*Files, Jim. “Ride into Adventure, Maturity Gallops Along.” Washington Times 14 June 1992: B6.

Garrett, George. “The Year in the Novel.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1992. Ed. James W. Hipp. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. 20-47. [McCarthy 38-39.]

Hansen, Jane. “Discussion Books for Teachers as Readers Groups.” Reading Today 10 (Apr./May 1993): 35.

Hawtree, Christopher.  “Americans against the World.”  Times [London] 15 Apr. 1993, 2^nd ed.: 36.

Herndon, John. “McCarthy Tells Texas Tale with Lyrical Prose.” Austin American-Statesman 7 Feb. 1993: G6.

Hooper, Brad. Booklist 88 (1 Apr. 1992): 1412.

Johnson, Larry. Southern Quarterly 31.1 (Fall 1992): 163-64.

Jones, Malcolm, Jr. “Literary Lion in the Desert.” Newsweek 119 (18 May 1992): 68.

Josyph, Peter. Library Journal 118 (1 Sept. 1993): 240. [Review of the abridged and unabridged audio recordings of the novel.]

Kennedy, Alison. “High in the Saddle.” The Scotsman 8 May 1993: Weekend sec.: 10.

Kimberley, Nick. "Unredeemed.” New Statesman & Society 6 (23 Apr. 1993): 34.

Koenig, Rhoda. “Reads.” New York 26 (28 June - 5 July 1993): 150, 152-53. [Brief review, and notice of paperback reissue of McCarthy’s novels from The Orchard Keeper through Blood Meridian (152).]

Ligon, Betty. “Fiery Author Softens a Bit in Good Cowboy Saga.” El Paso Herald-Post 1 June 1992: C3.

*Mabe, Chauncey. “Lost Frontier Frames Fine Tale.” Sun-Sentinel [Fort Lauderdale] 4 Oct. 1992: H10.

Malin, Irving. “A Sense of Incarnation.” Commonweal 119 (25 Sept. 1992): 29.

Mills, Jerry Leath. "Discovering Cormac McCarthy.” News & Observer [Raleigh, NC] 12 July 1992: G4.

Mitgang, Herbert. “Boys on Horseback, Loose in Mexico.” New York Times late edition 141 (27 May 1992): C18.

Riggan, William. World Literature Today 68 (Winter 1994): 128.

Rome, Linda. Library Journal 117 (15 May 1992): 120+.

Ryan, Alan. “ ‘Pretty Horses’: American Perfection.” USA Today 8 May 1992: D5.

Ryan, Richard. “Galloping Fiction.” Christian Science Monitor 84 (11 June 1992): 13.

Shepherd, Allen. "As Good as Money in the Bank: Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” New England Review 16 (Wtr. 1994): 176-79.

Silver, Marc. “Paper Tigers.” US News & World Report 114 (21 June 1993): 65. [Very brief notice of the Vintage paperback.]

Solomon, Charles. Los Angeles Times Book Review 26 Sept. 1993: 8. [Review of the Vintage paperback.]

Sutherland, John. “Adventures over the Rio Grande.” Times Literary Supplement 2 Apr. 1993: 21. [Review of the Picador paperback. For replies to this review, see entries for Conaway and Cooper, above.]

Tidmore, Kurt. “Cormac McCarthy has Total Command.” Houston Post 3 May 1992: C5. Also published as “Lighting out for the Territory.” Washington Post Book World 22 (3 May 1992): 1-2.

Walker, Dale L. “Luminous Language.” Rocky Mountain News [Denver, CO] 26 Apr. 1992: M24-25.

Weinman, Irving. “You Don’t Let a Gringo Marry your Daughter.” Literary Review Apr. 1993: 22-23. [Review of the Picador paperback.]

Williams, Don. “All the Pretty Colors of Cormac McCarthy (Has the Master of the Macabre Gone Soft?).” Chattahoochee Review 13 (Summer 1993): 1-7.

Wohlwend, Chris. “Writer Turns his Talent West.” Atlanta Journal- Constitution 3 May 1992: N12.

Zenowich, Christopher. “Coming of Age: A Lyrical Tale of the Southwest from Cormac McCarthy.” Chicago Tribune 10 May 1992, sec. 14: 5, 10.

Allen, Bruce. [See reviews of The Crossing.]

*Hall, Wade. “Accept the World as it Is: Evil is Balanced by Hope.” Lexington Herald-Leader 1 Jan. 1995: D7.

Josyph, Peter. Library Journal 119 (15 Apr. 1994): 76. [Actor/playwright Josyph finds the play flawed despite “some wonderful scenes".]

Olson, Ray. Booklist 90 (1 May 1994): 1576.

Ryan, Richard. [See reviews of The Crossing.]

*Skenazy, Paul. “Grace Discovered in Everyday Living.” San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 1994: Sunday Review sec.: 9.

Abram, Lynwood. “A Different McCarthy Journey: ‘Crossing’ an Episodic, Intellectual Successor to ‘Pretty Horses’” Houston Chronicle 12 June 1994: Zest sec.: 16.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 241 (25 April 1994): 55.

Anon. “Notes on Current Books.” Virginia Quarterly Review 71 (Winter 1995): 22.

Anon. “Books for Summer Reading.” Phi Delta Kappan 76 (June 1995): 807-11. [The Crossing, 808-809.]

Aldridge, John W. “Cormac McCarthy’s Bizarre Genius.” Atlantic Monthly 274 (Aug. 1994): 89-97. [Assesses all the novels through The Crossing.]

Allen, Brooke. “Bookshelf: Back West: High Wind in the Cottonwoods.” Wall Street Journal 10 June 1994: A8.

Allen, Bruce. “The Land of Wounded Men: A Novel and a Play from Cormac McCarthy, author of ‘All the Pretty Horses’.” Chicago Tribune 26 June 1994, sec. 14: 5.

Arnold, Edwin. “McCarthy Rides back in Top Form.” Charlotte Observer. 3 July 1994: C5.

Baker, Phil.  “Paperbacks.”  Sunday Times [London] 20 Aug. 1995, Books sec.: 10.

Bernard, Andre. “Cormac McCarthy: The Crossing.” Book-of-the-Month Club News (Summer 1994): 4-5. [Review/advertisement for the book club edition of The Crossing and its abridged audio cassette edition.]

Birkerts, Sven. “The Lone Soul State.” New Republic (11 July 1994): 38-41.

Boozer, William. “McCarthy Heads South Once More.” Nashville Banner. 1 July 1994: C8.

*Busby, Mark. Southwestern American Literature 19 (1994): 80-81.

Caldwell, Gail. “Dark Country: In ‘The Crossing,’ Cormac McCarthy Carves a Deeper Path into His Visionary West.” Boston Globe 19 June 1994: B23, 25.

Carr, C. “True West.” Village Voice 39 (5 July 1994): 81.

Cremean, David N. Western American Literature 30 (Spring 1995): 116-117.

Dirda, Michael. “At the End of His Tether.” Washington Post Book World 24 (5 June 1994): 1, 13.

*Draper, Robert. “The Crossing.” Texas Monthly 22 (Dec. 1994): 70.

Dyer, Geoff. “Billy the Kid Rides into the Sunset.” Guardian 23 Aug. 1994, sec. 2: 8-9.

Eder, Richard. “Cormac McCarthy’s Next Pilgrimage.” Los Angeles Times Book Review 12 June, 1994: 3, 12.

Estes, Sally. Booklist 90 (15 May 1994): 1645. [Very brief notation.]

Feld, Ross. “Timing and Spacing the As If: Poetic Prose and Prosaic Poetry.” Parnassus 20 (1995): 11-31.

G[arner], D[wight]. Harper’s Bazaar July 1994: 46.

Garrett, George. “The Year in Fiction.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1994. Ed. James W. Hipp. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. 72-92. [The Crossing: 72, 81.]

*Gottlieb, Alan. "Sublime Prose Blends with Timeless Themes.” Denver Post 3 July 1994: E8.

Hass, Robert. “Travels with a She-Wolf.” New York Times Book Review 12 June 1994, sec. 7: 1, 39-40.

Hutton, Randy. “A Darkling Tale.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 7 Aug. 1994: F6.

*Isle, Walter. “The Crossing: Bordering on Mythic.” Houston Post 12 June, 1994: C4.

Johnson, Larry. Southern Quarterly 33 (Fall 1994): 171-72.

Jones, Malcolm, Jr. “Brightening Western Star.” Newsweek 123 (13 June 1994): 54.

Kakutani, Michiko.  “Some More Border Crossings, Real and Symbolic.” New York Times 21 June 1994: B2.

Kerrigan, Michael. “Frontier Feelings.” Times Literary Supplement 2 Sept. 1994: 11.

Kimberley, Nick. “A Cold Coming.” New Statesman & Society 7 (19 Aug. 1994): 38-39. [Review of the Picador edition.]

Kirn, Walter. “Outward Bound.” New York 27 (13 June 1994): 70-71.

Ligon, Betty. “McCarthy Does Another Poignant One.” El Paso Herald-Post 29 July 1994: D5.

Loose Julian.  “All the Lonely Cowboys.”  Sunday Times [London] 4 Sept. 1994, Books sec.: 12.

Lowry, Victoria. Vogue 184 (July 1994): 82.

Martelle, Scott. “McCarthy Takes Journey Inside” El Paso Times 26 June 1994: F8.

McGrath, Charles. “Lone Rider.” The New Yorker 70 (27 June- 4 July 1994): 180-85.

Merkin, Daphne. “A Universe of Ostentatious Invention.” New Leader 77 (6-20 June 1994): 33-35.

Mort, John. Booklist 90 (15 May 1994): 1645. [Mostly plot summary, offered in advance of the novel’s publication.]

Nordan, Clay. Southern Living 29 (Nov. 1994): 115.

Poindexter, Joseph. People Weekly 41 (13 June 1994): 31.

*Pollack, Joe. “Rugged Journeys.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 26 June 1994: C5.

Porlock, Harvey.  “Harvey Porlock Listens to Reviewers a-Whoopin’ and a-Hollerin’.”  Sunday Times [London] 11 Sept. 1994, Books sec: 2.

*Richey, Jean. “The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.” World Literature Today 69 (Winter 1995): 140-41.

Richmond, Dick. “The Crossing.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 22 Sept. 1994: G4. [Review of the audio recording.]

Ryan, Alan. “A Soul in Search of a Home: The American Experience Is at Core of McCarthy’s ‘Crossing’.” Atlanta Journal/Constitution 26 June 1994: N10.

Ryan, Richard. “McCarthy Bridges Gap to Mainstream Readers.” Christian Science Monitor 7 July 1994: 13. [Also briefly reviews The Stonemason.]

Ryan, William G. American Journal of Psychiatry 151 (Dec 1994): 1822-23.

*Skenazy, Paul. “Between Now and the Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s New Novel: Two Orphaned Brothers Take an Archetypal Journey along the Mexican Border of the ‘30s.” San Francisco Chronicle 12 June 1994, Sunday Review sec.: 1.

Spencer, Patti Sylvester. Book Report 13 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 39.

St. John, Edward B. Library Journal 119 (15 June 1994): 95-96.

Steinberg, Sybil S. Publishers Weekly 241 (25 Apr. 1994): 55.

Taylor, D.J. "Distance Lends Enchantment.” Spectator 27 Aug. 1994: 33-34.

Tucker, Neely. “McCarthy Paints Another Dark Tale.” The State [Columbia, SC] 3 July 1994: F5. Also published as *"Ride to Ruin: Cormac McCarthy Chases ‘Pretty Horses’ with a Very Similar Look at the Fading West.” Detroit Free Press 19 June 1994: F8.

Waddington, Chris. “Run for the Border.” Times-Picayune [New Orleans] 10 July 1994: E7-8.

Wagner, Erica.  “Rites of Passage on Mexico’s Border.”  Times [London] 20 Aug. 1994: Weekend sec.: 14.

Wiebe, Bruce. “The Crossing.” Magill’s Literary Annual 1995: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States during 1994. Vol. 1. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem P, 1995. 157-60.

Wilhelmus, Tom. “Ranches of Isolation.” Hudson Review 48 (Spr. 1995): 145-52.

Wilson, Robert. “McCarthy’s Meandering ‘Crossing’.” USA Today 24 June, 1994: D7.

*West, Woody. "Endurance: McCarthy’s Billy Resolutely Faces Life’s Crossing.” Washington Times 12 June 1994: B8.

*Wood, Michael. “The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.” The London Review of Books 16 (6 Oct. 1994): 18.

*Woolley, Bryan. “Light in Darkness.” Dallas Morning News 12 June 1994: 8J.

*Anon.  “As McCarthy Wraps Up His ‘Border Trilogy,’ His Storytelling Shines.”  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 27 May 1998: E2.

*Anon.  “Books: And What’s More . . . .”  Observer [London] 28 June 1998: 18.

Anon. Publishers Weekly 245 (6 Apr. 1998): 58.

Anon. “New & Noteworthy Paperbacks.” New York Times Book Review 11 July 1999: 36.

Anon. “Vacation Reading.” New York Times Book Review 31 May 1998: 22-30; repeated in “Notable Books of 1998” 6 Dec. 1998: 65++. [Extremely brief recommendation.]

*Abram, Lynwood. “Border Lesson Unlearned.” Houston Chronicle 24 May 1998: Zest sec.: 21.

Allen, Brooke. “Roadside Philosophers.” New Leader 29 June-13 July, 1998: 24-25

Arnold, Edwin T. . “Horseman, Ride On.” World & I 13(October 1998): 259-67.

*——. “Western Myth and Cowboy Magic.” Cold Mountain Review 27.1 (Fall 1998): 66-69.

Asher, James. “Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Cities’–Squalor, Darkly.” Baltimore Sun 3 May 1998: 15E.

*Bass, Rick. “A Natural Wonder.” Dallas Morning News 24 May 1998: 8J.

*Bradfield, Scott.  “The Twilight Cowboy: With Tales of Desert Storms and Backwoods Mayhem, Cormac McCarthy Has Grown into a Legendary Bard of the Boondocks.”  Independent [London] 13 June 1998: 11.

Busby, Mark. “Back to the Border: ‘Cities of the Plain’ Takes Cormac McCarthy’s Trilogy into the Next Millennium.” Austin American-Statesman 24 May, 1998: D6-7.

Brinkmeyer, Robert. “Heading South.” Brightleaf 1.4 (Sept./Oct. 1998): 14.

*Cawelti, John. “Author Completes Trilogy with Epic Tragedy.”  Albuquerque Journal 14 June 1998: I12.

*____.  “McCarthy Captures the Conflict of Two Cultures.”  News & Record [Piedmont Triad, NC] 7 June 1998: F5. [Somewhat different from the above entry.]

*Cheuse, Alan. “Dark Quest." Chicago Tribune 31 May 1998, Books sec.: 3.

*Chollet, Laurence.  “The Latest Page-Turners.”  Record [Bergen County, NJ] 22 May 1998, Lifestyle/Previews sec.: 28.

*Cox, Ted. “ Popularity problem In a possible attempt to alienate his new mainstream audience, Cormac McCarthy's characters in 'Cities of the Plain' are more like marionettes than humans.”  Daily Herald [Arlington Heights, IL] 22 May 1998, Time Out sec.: 41.

*Devine, Lawrence. “Back out West.” Detroit Free Press 24 May 1998: 7H.

Dirda, Michael. “The Last Roundup.” Washington Post Book World 24 May 1998: 5.

*Dumas, Alan.  “McCarthy’s Trilogy Ends in Grand Style.”  Rocky Mountain News [Denver, CO] 17 May 1998: 2E.

*Ellis, Jay. Concho River Review 12.2 (Fall 1998): 82-83.

Evenson, Brian. Review of Contemporary Fiction. 18.3 (Fall 1998): 250-51.

Garrett, George. “The Year in Fiction.” Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1998. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999. 17-38. [McCarthy 27.]

Gilb, Dagoberto. "Border Romance.” Nation 6 July 1998: 38-42.

Gottlieb, Alan. “Trilogy’s Finale a Heady Mix." Denver Post 24 May 1998: 1, 6F.

*Hagestadt, Emma.  “Paperbacks.”  Independent [London] 29 May 1999: 13.Harris, Roger.  “McCarthy Borders on the Brilliant.”  Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ] 28 June 1998, Perspective/ Books sec.: 6.

Harrison, Carey. “The Sun Sets on McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” San Francisco Chronicle 10 May 1998: Book Review sec.: 1, 8.

Hickman, Lisa C. Southern Quarterly 37.1 (Fall 1998): 159-60.

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy.  “Almost Divine.”  Sunday Times [London] 7 June 1998, Books sec.: 8.

Jones, Malcolm, Jr. “Writing into the Sunset.” Newsweek 131 (18 May 1998): 75.

Kakutani, Michiko. "Moving along the Border between Past and Future.” New York Times 22 May, 1998: E43.

*Kennedy, A. L.  “Heading for the Last Round-Up.”  Scotsman [Edinburgh] 13 June 1998: 14.

Ligon, Betty. “Capturing Cowboys: Old West Put to Rest in Trilogy Finale.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 7 Mar. 1999: F8. [Includes some recent biographical information.]

*Lohier, Patrick. Newcity Chicago 21 May 1998, “Verve” sec.: 2.

*Mars-Jones, Adam.  “Back at the Ranch: A Plain Tale of Whores, Horses, Cowboys and, er . . . Chess.”  Observer [London] 7 June 1998: 15.

*McCrum, Robert.  “Book of the Week.”  Observer [London] 21 June 1998: 55.

*Morrod, Andrew.  “Paperbacks.”  Daily Mail [London] 4 June 1999: 52.

Mosle, Sara. “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys.” New York Times Book Review 17 May 1998: 16-18.

Neill, Michael. People Weekly 49 (1 June 1998): 44.

*Pearson, Michael.  “Burnt Lives and Lost Loves in the Heartland: Last Novel in Trilogy Brings Destruction and Salvation.” Virginian Pilot 14 June 1998): J2. 

*Pollack, Joe.  “McCarthy Closes Sparse, Dramatic Trilogy.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 May 1998, Everyday Magazine sec.: D5.

Quinn, Paul. “Crossing the Mountains of Mexico.” Times Literary Supplement 19 June 1998: 24.

Roberts, Diane.  “The Borderlands of Truth: McCarthy Ropes and Ties the Wild West of Fond Myth.”  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 31 May 1998: L10.

*Schmitz, Neil.  “Enter the Cowboy, Sans Irony.”  Buffalo News [NY] 31 May 1998: F6.

Sheppard, R. Z. “Thar She Moos." Time 151 (18 May 1998): 95.

Smothers, Bonnie. Booklist 94 (15 Apr. 1998): 1357.

*St. John, Edward B. Library Journal 123 (15 May 1998): 115.

*Sullivan, Mike. “McCarthy Constructs Satisfying Sequel.” Columbus Dispatch 21 May 1998: 6E.

*Tarrant, David. “Audio Books: The Mythic West.” Dallas Morning News 18 Apr. 1999: 2F. [Review of the audio recording.]

Trachtenberg, Jeffrey. Wall Street Journal 8 May 1998: W10.

Wagner, Erica.  “Borderline Case.”  Times [London] 13 June 1998, Metro sec.: 18.

Walker, Dale L. “Latest Novel Soars to Meet Expectations.” El Paso Times 17 May 1998: 1F, 3F.

*Wegner, John. Texas Review 29.3-4 (Fall-Wtr. 1999): 114-115.

Wiebe, Bruce. “Cities of the Plain.” Magill’s Literary Annual 1999: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States during 1998. Vol. 1. Ed. John D. Wilson. Pasadena: Salem P, 1999. 173-76.

Williamson, Chilton, Jr. “A Cowboy on Olympus.” National Review 12 Oct. 1998: 61-62.

The Border Trilogy

Sullivan, Walter.  “The Last Cowboy Song: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”  Sewanee Review 108.2 (Spr. 2000): 292-97.

No Country for Old Men

*Anon. “Briefly.”  Dayton Daily News [OH] 24 July 2005: F7.

Anon.  Kirkus Reviews  1 May 2005: 500.

Anon.  Lowell Sun [MA] 12 June 2005, Lifestyle sec.

*Anon.  “McCarthy’s Newest Full of Violence.”  Post-Standard [Syracuse, NY] 23 July 2006: Book Review sec.: 10.

Anon.  “Not a Pretty Sight, But One That Should Hit the Jackpot, Again.”  Economist  30 July 2005: 75.

*Anon.  “Our Editors Recommend.”  San Francisco Chronicle  31 July 2005, final ed.: F2.

*Anon. “Page One.”  Poets & Writers  33.4 (July/Aug. 2005): 12-13.

*Anon.  “Paperbacks.”  Sunday Herald [Glasgow, Scotland] 6 Aug. 2006: 32.

Anon.  Publishers Weekly  23 May 2005: 58.

Amidon, Stephen.  “Tex-Mex Mayhem.”  Sunday Times [London] 6 Nov. 2005, Culture sec.: 52.

Antrim, Taylor.  “Hot Pursuit: In Cormac McCarthy’s Riveting New Novel, a Modern Cowboy Goes on the Run.”  Vogue  Aug. 2005: 164.

*Barcott, Bruce.  “The Border and Beyond.”  Outside  Aug. 2005: 34.

*Battersby, Eileen.  “Appointment with Deathly Prose.”  Irish Times  29 Oct. 2005, Book Reviews sec.: 10.

*Beach, Patrick.  “All the Pretty Sentences: Cormac McCarthy Cleans Up His Verbiage—and Gets His Hands Dirty.”  Austin American-Statesman [Texas] 17 July 2005: K5.

*Beattie, Steven W.  “Missing the Good Old Days.”  Books in Canada  34.9 (Dec. 2005): 3. 

*Begley, Adam.  “A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected.”  New York Observer  25 July 2005, Culture sec., Books: 9.

*Benedict, Laura Philpot.  “Crime and Wisdom: Sheriff Battles Drug Dealers, Psychopath in Tale of Modern West.”  Grand Rapids Press 17 July 2005: J5.

Block, Allison.  Booklist  15 May 2005: 1614.

Boyagoda, Randy.  “Tale of the New West: Kicking the Corpses of Postmodern America.”  Weekly Standard 29 Aug. 2005: 44-45.

Byrd, Chris.  “Man on the Run.”  America  31 Oct. 2005: 26-27.

*Caesar, Ed.  “A Severed Head and Shoulders above the Rest.”  Independent on Sunday [London] 30 Oct. 2005, first ed.: 20.

Caldwell, Gail.  “Lone Star Cauldron.”  Boston Globe  24 July 2005, third ed.: D6.

Cheuse, Alan.  “An Expanded Violent Vision of America from Cormac McCarthy.”  Chicago Tribune  24 July 2005, sec. 14: 1, 5.

Chiarella, Tom.  “Books for Men.”  Esquire  Aug. 2005: 46.

*Cleave, Christopher.  “Fiction: Evil Still Stalks Cormac McCarthy’s World, Finds Christopher Cleave.”  Sunday Telegraph [London] 13 Nov. 2005, Review sec.: 41.

*Clements, Toby.  “Pick of the Paperbacks.”  Daily Telegraph [London] 24 June 2006: Books sec.

*Cobb, William J.  “On the Border of Evil: McCarthy’s New Masterpiece Is a Blood-Drenched, Drug-Trade Morality Tale Set in West Texas.”  Houston Chronicle 17 July 2005, Zest sec.: 17.

Curtis, Diana.  Southern Humanities Review 40.4 (Fall 2006): 407-11.

*Davis, Duane.  “A World of Hurt: Hard-Bitten Prose Reveals Brutal Life in McCarthy’s Latest.”  Rocky Mountain News [Denver] 22 July 2005: D23.

Deresiewicz, William.  “It’s a Man’s, Man’s World.”  Nation 12 Sept. 2005: 38-41.

*Donahue, Deirdre.  “‘No Country’: The Old West with Contemporary Brutality.”  USA Today  26 July 2005, final ed.: 5D.

*Durbin, Jonathan.  People  8 Aug. 2005: 46.

Edric, Robert.  “Pursuit in the Desert.”  Spectator  5 Nov. 2005: 76.

*Eng, Heather V.  “Life and Death in the ‘Country’: Honor and Existence Tangle in McCarthy’s Powerful New Western Thriller.”  Boston Herald 24 July 2005, Arts and Lifestyle sec.: 36.

*Eyman, Scott.  “Touch of Evil.”  Palm Beach Post  31 July 2005, final ed., Arts and Entertainment sec.: 6J.

*Fiedler, Terry.  “True Grip: McCarthy’s First Novel in Seven Years Has the Accessible, Page-Turning Quality of a True-Crime Book.”  Star Tribune [Minneapolis] 24 July 2005, Metro ed., Entertainment sec.: 12F.

Freeman, John.  “A Hunter’s High Noon.”  Wall Street Journal  22 July 2005, Eastern ed.: W7.

*Froehlich, Cliff.  “‘Killer’ Novel Is Hollywood-Worthy.”  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 July 2005: C10.

*Gates, John D.  “Killer Waits under the West Texas Sky.”  Winston-Salem Journal 7 Aug. 2005: A20.

*Gerard, Philip.  “Cormac McCarthy Rides Again: The Old West and the New Collide in the Author’s First Novel in Seven Years.”  News & Observer [Raleigh, NC]  24 July 2005, final ed.: G4.

*Goldenberg, Judi.  “McCarthy Pits Good against Evil in Macho Story.”  Richmond Times Dispatch  3 July 2005, City ed., Commentary sec.: E4.

*Goring, Rosemary.  “Go East, Old Man: Cormac McCarthy’s Wild West Is No Place for the Elderly, or the Squeamish.”  Herald [Glasgow, Scotland] 29 Oct. 2005: ABC sec.: 7.

Gorra, Michael.  “Journey into a Land beyond Law:  Cormac McCarthy’s Busted Deal.”  Times Literary Supplement  28 Oct. 2005: 21.

Graham, Don.  “All the Pretty Corpses.”  Texas Monthly  Aug. 2005: 78, 95, 97.

Grossman, Lev.  “Take the Money and Run.”  Time  18 July 2005: 73.

Gwyn, Aaron.  Review of Contemporary Fiction  25.3 (Fall 2005): 138-39.

Hallett, Vicky.  “Reading Tryst.”  U. S. News and World Report  6 June 2005: D2-4.

*Harris, Roger.  “Men and Morals.”  Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ] 24 July 2005, Book Review sec.: 6.

*Helm, Richard.  Edmonton Journal [Alberta] 9 July 2005, final ed., Sunday Reader sec.: E11.

*Hinckley, David.  “Live or Let Die: Blood-Soaked Cormac McCarthy Thriller Raises a Cluster of Moral Questions.”  Daily News  [New York] 31 July 2005, Sports final ed., Sunday Now sec.: 18.

Hodge, Roger D.  “Blood and Time: Cormac McCarthy and the Twilight of the West.”  Harper’s Magazine  Feb. 2006: 65-72.  [Review-essay.]

Hogue, Bill.  “Wandering a Dark and Brutal ‘Country’.”  The State (Columbia, SC)  21 Aug. 2005: E5.

Hughes, Robert J.  “Summer Reading.”  Wall Street Journal  13 May 2005, Eastern ed.: W1, W4.

Jones, Malcolm.  “Guns, Money and Dope in the Texas Desert.”  Newsweek  25 July 2005: 58-59.

Kakutani, Michiko.  “On the Loose in Badlands: Killer with a Cattle Gun.”  New York Times  18 July 2005, late ed.: E1, E4.

Kirn, Walter.  “Texas Noir.”  New York Times 24 July 2005, late ed., Book Review sec. : 9.

*Kisor, Henry.  “Night of the Hunter.”  Chicago Sun-Times  24 July 2005, Books sec.: 12.

*Langley, Greg.  “Cultures in Conflict: McCarthy Drops His Protagonist into Brutal World of Drug Dealers.”  Advocate  [Baton Rouge] 24 July 2005, Metro ed., Magazine sec.: 3.

*Lanham, Fritz.  “Two Men of Many Words: Much Anticipated Works from Irving, McCarthy.”  Houston Chronicle 15 May 2005, Star ed., Zest sec.: 19.

*La Rocca, Claudia.  “Irresistible Old Men: Style Begets Substance in Sweep-You-off-Your-Feet Western.”  Guelph Mercury [Ontario] 17 Sept. 2005, Saturday final ed.: C4.

[Lewis, Trevor].  “Paperbacks: Pick of the Week.”  Sunday Times [London] 23 July 2006, Culture sec.: 48.

*Linton, Amy Smith.  “Texas Lingo Rings as True as Heartfelt Drug-Running Tale.”  Tampa Tribune 10 July 2005, Baylife sec.: 7.

*Mars-Jones, Adam.  “Psycho Dramas: A Compelling Killer Is Central to Cormac McCarthy’s Typically Lean and Stylish Novel.”  Observer  6 Nov. 2005, Review sec.: 15.

*Mayer, Robert.  “McCarthy Echoes Back to Earlier Styles.”  Santa Fe New Mexican 31 July 2005: G5.

McConnell, Sean.  Virginia Quarterly Review  81.4 (Fall 2005): 294-95.

*McGillis, Ian.  “Drugs and Death on the U. S.-Mexican Border.”  Gazette [Montreal] 23 July 2005, final ed.: H1.

*McMahon, Bruce.  “Highway to Hell.”  Courier Mail [Queensland, Australia] 30 July 2005: M8.

*McNulty, Tim.  “Death Charges through a Drug-Plagued Town.”  Seattle Times  24 July 2005, fourth ed.: K7.

Melichar, Don.  “Sailing to Dallas.”  American Book Review  Jan./Feb. 2006: 26.

Miano, Sarah Emily.  “Take the Money and Run.”  Times [London] 5 Nov. 2005, Books sec.: 16.

*Milofsky, David.  “Chasing Drug Money.”  Denver Post 17 July 2005, final ed.: F12.

*Montgomery, Isobel.  Guardian Weekly [Manchester, England] 28 July 2006: 26.

*Moore, Lisa.  “How America Got Lost.”  National Post 23 July 2005, Toronto ed.: WP14.

*Ness, Patrick.  “A Mistaken Act of Kindness.”  Daily Telegraph [London] 12 Nov. 2005, Books sec.: 10.

Nicoll, Ruaridh.  “Bloody Trail.”  New Statesman  14 Nov. 2005: 54-55.

Oates, Joyce Carol.  “The Treasure of Comanche County.”  New York Review of Books  20 Oct. 2005: 41-44.

Pearson, Michael.  “Evil in the Flesh: Sparse Writing Sets Bone-Chilling Tone for Tale of Defeated Lives.”  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 17 July 2005, Sunday Home ed.: L8.

*Peschel, Bill.  “Thrill Killer: ‘Old Men’ Doesn’t Hit Action Mark.”  Patriot News [Harrisburg, PA] 31 July 2005, final ed.: J3.

*Powers, Tom.  “‘Men’ Plays Out to Shockingly Bittersweet End.”  Flint Journal  [Michigan] 7 Aug. 2005, first ed.: F3.

*Ratcliffe, Sophie.  “New Fiction.”  Daily Mail [London] 28 Oct. 2005, Book Review sec.: 64.

*Reed, Kit.  “To Live and Die in Texas.”  St. Petersburg Times 17 July 2005: 6P.

*Ross, Tim.  “Judging Right and Wrong with Plenty of Blood and Murder.”  News Letter [Belfast, Northern Ireland] 5 Dec. 2005: 31.

*Shechner, Mark.  “Gunslingers and Corpses Populate McCarthy’s Dark Landscape.”  Buffalo News [New York] 10 July 2005, final ed.: H7.

Scott, Whitney.  Booklist  1 Nov. 2005: 67.

Sexton, Jack.  “The Natural Weight of Words.”  Quadrant  Nov. 2005: 86-87.

Shea, Mike.  “Previews and Reviews.” Texas Monthly  July 2005: 64.

*Shriver, Lionel.  “Hostile Territory: Cormac McCarthy’s Fine New Thriller Explores the Moral Degradation of the American West.”  Financial Times [London] 5 Nov. 2005: 32.

*Simpson, Hassell A.  “Apocalypse and Elegy.”  Virginian-Pilot [Norfolk] 31 July 2005: E3.

*Sinclair, Clive.  “The Wildest West of All.”  Independent [London] 4 Nov. 2005: 24.

St. John, Edward B.  Library Journal  15 June 2005: 59.

*Stephenson, Anne.  “Briefly.”  Dayton Daily News [Ohio] 24 July 2005: F7.

Strong, Benjamin.  “A Prophet of Gore.”  New Leader  July/Aug. 2005: 31-32.

*Taitz, Laurice.  Sunday Times [South Africa] 27 Aug. 2006, LifeStyle ed., Art, Culture & Entertainment sec.: 12.

*Tannenbaum, Jeffrey.  “An Innocent, a Psychopath and Pared-Down Prose.”  Vancouver Sun 23 July 2005, final ed.: D16.

Taylor, Ihsan.  “Paperback Row.” New York Times 30 July 2006, late ed., Book Review sec.: 20.

*Turakhia, Vikas.  “Slaughters Aside, Newest from McCarthy Clips Along.”  Plain Dealer [Cleveland] 12 July 2006: E2.

White, J. M.  “Artifices of Eternity.”  Sewanee Review  113.2 (Spr. 2005): xlix-li.

Wood, James.  “Red Planet: The Sanguinary Sublime of Cormac McCarthy.”  New Yorker 25 July 2005: 88-90, 92-93.

*Zaltzman, Helen.  Observer [London] 16 July 2006, Book Review sec.: 28.

Zipp, Yvonne.  “A Modern, More Brutal Western.”  Christian Science Monitor 12 July 2005: 16.

The Road

Anon.  “Agony and Despair on the Last Mile Home.”  Canberra Times [Australia] 14 Oct. 2006.

Anon.  “Desert Storm.”  Economist 16 Sept. 2006: 93.

*Anon.  “Grim Journey Has Love as Its Life Force.”  Nelson Mail [New Zealand] 10 Jan. 2007: 25.

Anon.  Publishers Weekly  24 July 2006: 32.

Anon.  Publishers Weekly  4 Dec. 2006: 53.  [Review of the audio recording by Tom Stechschulte.]

Abell, Stephen.  “Another Terra Damnata: Cormac McCarthy Covers a Post-Nuclear Terrain.  Times Literary Supplement 10 Nov. 2006: 19-20.

*Allfree, Claire. Evening Standard [London] 7 Nov. 2006: 28.

Amidon, Stephen.  “On the Highway to Hell.”  Sunday Times [London] 29 Oct. 2006, Culture sec.: 54.

*Bancroft Colette.  “A Detour at the End of ‘The Road’.”  St. Petersburg Times [Florida] 23 Apr. 2007: 1E.

*Barra, Allen.  “McCarthy Takes Dubious Turn in Road.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette  [Little Rock] 1 Oct. 2006: Travel sec.

Beck, Stefan.  “A Trackless Waste.”  New Criterion Oct. 2006: 78-79.

*Begley, Adam.  “A White-Line Nightmare: After the End of the World.”  New York Observer 9 Oct. 2006, Culture sec.

*Benedict, Laura Philpot.  “‘The Road’: A Post-Apocalyptic Masterpiece: Cormac McCarthy’s Father-Son Road Trip by Turns Grim and Tender.”  Grand Rapids Press [Michigan] 22 Oct. 2006: J8.

Boudway, Matthew.  “Christmas Critics.”  Commonweal  1 Dec. 2006: 19-20.

Breslin, John B.  “From These Ashes.”  America  29 Jan. 2007: 27-28.

Burns, Ann, et al.  “Best Books of 2006.”  Library Journal Jan. 2007: 48-53.  [McCarthy 53.]

*Caesar, Ed.  “The Unnamed Travellers on the Road to Hell.”  Independent on Sunday [London] 29 Oct. 2006, ABC sec.: 28.

Caldwell, Gail.  “Desolation Row.”  Boston Globe 24 Sept. 2006, third ed.: D4.

Chabon, Michael.  “After the Apocalypse.”  New York Review of Books 15 Feb. 2007:  24-26.

Chiarella, Tom.  “All the Pretty Horses Have Died: Cormac McCarthy’s Journey through Postapocalyptic America.”  Esquire Sept. 2006: 94, 98.

*Chong, Kevin.  “Apocalyptic Survival Tale Is a Page-Turner.”  National Post [Canada] 14 Oct. 2006, Toronto ed.: WP16; other editions: WP11.

*Clark, Pete.  “A Nightmare Vision of the Fall of Mankind.”  Evening Standard [London] 6 Nov. 2006, Book review sec.: 37.

*Cleave, Chris.  “Chris Cleave Is Gripped by This Harrowing Portrait of a Futurist America.”  Sunday Telegraph [London] 5 Nov. 2006, Seven sec.: 55.

Coffey, Michael.  “The Power of Fiction.”  Publishers Weekly 6 Nov. 2006: 68.

Crispin, Jessa.  “Making His Own Rules: McCarthy Moves beyond Westerns but Sticks to Form with His Post-Apocalyptic Novel, The Road.”  Writer’s Digest 87 (Apr. 2007): 26-27.

*Dachslager, Earl L.  “The Parable Lacks a Point: Cormac McCarthy Leads Readers through a ‘Godless’ Landscape.”  Houston Chronicle  24 Sept. 2006, 2 Star ed., Zest sec.: 22.

Davis, Alan.  “Apocalypse Now.”  Hudson Review  60.1 (2007):145-50.  [McCarthy 149-50.]

*Davis, Duane.  “‘Road’ Scholar Cormac McCarthy Proves He’s Still in the Driver’s Seat with Raw Apocalyptic Tale.”  Rocky Mountain News [Denver] 29 Sept. 2006: 27D.

Donahue, Deirdre.  “All the Unpretty Forces Unleashed in ‘Road’.”  USA Today 28 Sept. 2006, final ed.: 1D.

Fitzgerald, Mary.  “After the Apocalypse.”  New Statesman 4 Dec. 2006: 60.

*Freeman, John.  “Brutal and Beautiful ‘Road’: Father-Son Journey through the Post-Apocalypse Leads McCarthy’s Themes to a Dark, Inevitable End.”  Denver Post 29 Oct. 2006: F13.

*        .  “The Road to the Pulitzer.”  Jerusalem Post 20 Apr. 2007, Books sec.: 28.

*Froehlich, Cliff.  “Bleak Landscape, Spare Language Frame Survival Story.  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8 Oct. 2006, 4^th ed.: F9.

Gatti, Tom.  “Hope Flickers, But Only Just.”  Times [London] 28 Oct. 2006, Books sec.: 12.

Graff, Keir.  Booklist Aug. 2006: 9.

Gray, J. A.  “Briefly Noted.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life  May 2007: 54-55. 

*Griffiths, Niall.  “All of It Barren and Eroded:  Niall Griffiths Is Shaken by the Desolation of a Post-Apocalyptic Novel of Ferocious Power.” Daily Telegraph [London] 28 Oct. 2006, Books sec.: 27.

*        .  “First Person Singular: Why I Was Wrong about Cormac McCarthy.”  Daily Telegraph [London] 28 Apr. 2007, Art sec.: 12.

*Grimm, Fred.  “America, the Savage: Cormac McCarthy’s Tenth Novel Charts a Father’s Struggle to Save His Son in a Barbaric Future.” Miami Herald 1 Oct. 2006, Lifestyle sec.

Grossman, Lev.  “Writers on the Storm.”  Time  9 Oct. 2006: 68.

*Hahn, Kandra.  “Highway to Hell.”  Lincoln Journal Star [Nebraska] 19 Nov. 2006, City ed.: K3.

Hand, Elizabeth.  “Books: Post-Apocalypse Now.”  Fantasy and Science Fiction 112.3 (2007): 43-49.  [McCarthy 43-47.]

*Hauptfleisch, Gordon.  “New World Order: Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ Is a Surprising Departure into a Bleak Post-Apocalyptic Planet.”  San Diego Union-Tribune 15 Oct. 2006, Books sec.: 1.

Healy, Benjamin, and Benjamin Schwarz.  “Cover to Cover: A Guide to Additional Releases.”  Atlantic Monthly  Nov.  2006: 124-25. 

*Heltzel, Ellen Emry.  “Survival in a Ravaged America.”  Seattle Times  29 Apr. 2007, 4^th ed.: L10.

*Hoover, Bob.  “Nowhere to Hide: Everybody Loses in McCarthy’s End Game.”  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1 Oct. 2006, Five Star ed.: E5.

Jones, Malcolm.  “On the Lost Highway: Cormac McCarthy Sends a Father and Son on the Scariest Road Trip He Can Imagine.”  Newsweek  2 Oct. 2006: 68.

Kennedy, William.  “Left Behind.”  New York Times Book Review  8 Oct. 2006: 1, 10-11.

*MacGowan, James.  “Road to Ruin.”  Ottawa Citizen 15 Apr. 2007, final ed.: C6.

Mairs, Nancy.  “Worlds in Despair.”  Women’s Review of Books  24.2 (Mar./Apr. 2007): 32.

*Marchand, Philip.  “The Absolute Truth of the World: The End Is Nigh and Woe Is Us.”  Toronto Star  8 Oct. 2006: D8.

Mars, Jones, Adam.  “Life after Armageddon: Cormac McCarthy’s Meditation on Death, Both of Individuals and Humanity, Is by Turns Bleak and Exhilarating.”  Observer [London] 26 Nov. 2006, Review sec: 25.

Maslin, Janet.  “The Road through Hell, Paved with Desperation.”  New York Times 25 Sept. 2006, late ed.: E1, E8.

Melnick, Sheri.  Booklist 1 & 15 Jan. 2007: 128.  [Review of the audio recording by Tom Stechschulte.]

*Miller, Phil.  “Visions of Terrible Beauty: Cormac McCarthy’s Tale of Survival in a Ruined World Is Chilling but Brilliant, Says Phil Miller.”  Herald [Glasgow] 18 Nov. 2006, Guide sec.: 5.

Morrow, Stephen.  Library Journal 1 Sept. 2006: 137-38.

*O’Brien, Richard.  “In a World of Dust and Ash.”  Guelph Mercury [Ontario, Canada] 21 Oct. 2006, final ed.: C5.

*Paul, Steve.  “A Double Dose of Drama, Told Artfully.”  Kansas City Star 5 Nov. 2006, Lifestyle sec.

*Percy, Benjamin.  “One Bloody, Ash-Caked Masterpiece.”  Capital Times [Madison, WI] 22 Dec. 2006: A9.

Pilkington, Tom.  “Apocalypse Now.”  American Book Review Jan./Feb. 2007: 19-20.

Poniewozik, James.  “Postapocalypse Now:  Pop Culture’s Latest Visions of Mass Destruction Feel Eerily Intimate.”  Time  23 Oct. 2006: 94.

*Ratcliffe, Sophie.  “New Fiction.”  Daily Mail [London] 3 Nov. 2006, Book Review sec.: 64.

Reese, Jennifer.  “‘Road’ Warrior.” Entertainment Weekly  29 Sept. 2006: 85.

Ryan, Tom.  “Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Sensibility.”  National Catholic Reporter 4 May 2007: 13-14.

Shea, Mike.  “Previews and Reviews: Books.” Texas Monthly Oct. 2006: 60.

*Shechner, Mark.  “McCarthy’s Latest Travels His Bleakest Terrain Yet.”  Buffalo News [New York] 8 Oct. 2006, final ed.: G5.

Shy, Todd.  Christian Century 6 Mar. 2007: 38-41.

*Sinclair, Clive.  “Words for the End of a World.”  Arts and Book Review  17 Nov. 2006, 1^st ed.: 24.

Smee, Sebastian.  “When All the Clocks Have Stopped.”  Spectator 11 Nov. 2006: 53.

*Swift, Daniel.  “Just the Two of Us: Father and Son Stick Together in a Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Love Battling the Odds.”  Financial Times [London] 28 Oct. 2006, Weekend Magazine sec.: 32.

Taylor, Ihsan.  “Paperback Row.”  New York Times Book Review 27 May 2007: 24.

*Upchurch, Michael.  “What’s New--Post-Apocalyptic Road Novel.”  Seattle Times  29 Apr. 2007, 4^th ed.: L9.

Villalon, Oscar.  “In a Time of War and Trickery—The Year’s Best Books.”  San Francisco Chronicle 17 Dec. 2006: M1.

*Wakefield, Richard.  “‘The Road’: Books in Brief.” Seattle Times 22 Oct. 2006, 4^th ed.: M9.

*Wark, Kirsty, et al.  “Review: Books of the Year.”  Observer [London] 26 Nov. 2006: 22.

*Warner, Alan.  “The Road to Hell.”  Guardian [London] 4 Nov. 2006, final ed., Review sec.: 7.

*Whetter, Darryl.  “Road of Ruin: Chilling and Beautiful, McCarthy’s New Masterpiece Walks a Father and Son through a Nightmarish World.”  Edmonton Journal [Alberta, Canada] 22 Oct. 2006, final ed: E10.

Wood, James.  “Getting to the End.”  New Republic  21 May 2007: 44-48.

Workman, Stephen.  “The Limits of Hope.”  CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 13 Mar. 2007: 818-19.

Zipp, Yvonne.  “To Be Alive in a World That Is Dead.”  Christian Science Monitor  3 Oct. 2006: 14, 17.

The Sunset Limited

Kramer, Avi.  Kliatt  41.2 (Mar. 2007): 23.

Shea, Mike.  “Previews and Reviews: Books.”  Texas Monthly Jan. 2007: 52.

Stasio, Marilyn.  Variety 6-12 Nov. 2006: 37. [Review of the Steppenwolf production.]

"Charles McCarthy Gets $125 Writing Award.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 Feb. 1959: 5.

"Phoenix to Appear Next Week.” Orange and White [U of Tennessee] 55 (16 October 1959): 1. [Mentions that the student literary magazine “will include the first printed work by C. J. McCarthy, who is studying at U-T aided by a grant based on his writing."]

“Miss McCarthy, John J. McCooe Will Wed July 1: Teacher, Daughter of a T. V. A. Aide, Engaged to Fordham Alumnus.”  New York Times 4 June 1961, late city ed., sec. 1: 101.

“John McCooe Weds Barbara McCarthy.”  New York Times 2 July 1961: 29.

"Miss McCarthy Marries Mr. James A. Jaques [Jacques] III. News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 June 1963: 6. [Charles J. McCarthy, Jr., of Sevierville, among wedding guests.]

"American Academy Lists Awards to 24.” New York Times 29 Apr. 1965: 25.

"Former U-T Student Writes Book.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 16 May 1965: B7.

"Knox Author Going to Europe.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 19 May 1965: D7.

Fields, Pat. “Knoxville Author Gets Award for Writing.” Knoxville Journal 19 May 1965: 13.

"McCarthy Wins Award for Novel.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 12 Mar.1966: 12.

"Books — Authors.” New York Times 115 (17 Mar. 1966): 36. [Notice of McCarthy’s winning the William Faulkner Foundation Award for 1965.]

"Two from Area Get Fellowships.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 4 Apr.1969: 21.

Harkness, David J. “Four Area Authors Have New Books.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 13 Jan. 1974: F4.

[O’Steen, Neal]. “Alumni in the Limelight: Cormac McCarthy.” Tennessee Alumnus 54 (Winter 1974): 15.

O’Connor, John J. “TV: WNET Showing Haunting ‘Gardener’s Son.’” New York Times 6 Jan. 1977: 59.

Segroves, Gerald. "There’s a Touch of England in the Maryville-Alcoa Ballet.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 13 Mar. 1977: G1, G3. [Includes account of Anne DeLisle’s early career and her meeting and marrying Cormac McCarthy.]

"Announcements." Publishers Weekly 22 Jan. 1979: 289. [First serial rights of Suttree sold to Antaeus.]

"Knox Novelist Wins Prize.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 17 Nov. 1981: A9."Foundation Picks Geneticist As Its First Fellow Laureate." New York Times 18 Nov. 1981: B3.

Byrne, Harlan S. “After the Windfall: How Life Has Changed for ‘Geniuses’ Blessed by No-Strings Grants.” Wall Street Journal 19 Nov. 1981: 1, 20. [McCarthy included in list of MacArthur Foundation award recipients.]

Sweeten, Tom. “‘Heartland’ Gathering Momentum.” Knoxville Journal 15 Jan. 1982: C1. [Interview with Richard Pearce, director of “The Gardener’s Son"; brief mention of McCarthy.]

Fields, Linda Felts. “Annie’s Opens to Rave Reviews.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 27 July 1983: C1. [Interview with Anne McCarthy; brief mention of McCarthy “from whom she is now divirced".]

Durman, Louise. “At Annie’s the Stage Is Set for Dinner.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 7 Mar. 1984: C1. [Interview and account of Anne McCarthy’s restaurant in Knoxville; brief mention of her life with McCarthy.]

L[yons], G[ene]. “A Critic’s Choice.” Newsweek 106 (30 Sept. 1985): 74. [Child of God.]

“The Literary Editor’s Selection of Interesting Books Published This Week.”  Times [London] 18 Mar. 1989, Review sec.: 38.  [Suttree.]

McNamee, Gregory. “Goodbye to All That.” Bloomsbury Review 10 (Jan.-Feb. 1990): 16-17. [Reviewing the decade, McNamee mentions Blood Meridian, “one of the truly great American novels” (17).]

Williams, Don. “Annie DeLisle: Cormac McCarthy’s Ex-Wife Prefers to Recall the Romance.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 June 1990: E1-2. [Interview with Anne DeLisle.]

——. “Cormac McCarthy: Knoxville’s Most Famous Contemporary Writer Prefers His Anonymity."  News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 June 1990: E1-2.

——. “Cormac McCarthy’s Bibliography Begins with a Novel from the ‘60s.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 June 1990: E2.

"Ex-Knox Writer Top Candidate for Hall of Fame." News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 30 Sept. 1990: A14.

Martin, Michelle. “Five Writers Selected for Local Hall of Fame.” El Paso Herald-Post 6 Apr. 1991: A1, A5. [Announces McCarthy’s induction into Authors of the Pass: Herald-Post Writers Hall of Fame on 10 May 1991. “He currently is working on a trilogy of novels” (A5).]

Williams, Don. “Art Pays Tribute to K-Town.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 2 Aug. 1991: B1. [Mentions public readings from McCarthy’s works in Knoxville in 1983 and 1991.]

"Esquire Has Knox Writer’s Newest Work.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 1 Mar. 1992: F3.

*Compton, Robert. “Texas Books Will Surface in the Spring Flood.” Dallas Morning News 22 Mar. 1992: 6c.

Walker, Dale. “Writing Easier than Talking about Writing.” El Paso Times 25 Mar. 1992: B2. [Texas Western Press director notes that “The hands-down best approach to speaking about writing is that of El Paso novelist Cormac McCarthy, a gentle and friendly man who is very likely the best writer in this country. McCarthy doesn’t make speeches or talk about his writing at all."]

Walker, Dale L. “‘Best Unknown Major Writer’ Seeks and Receives Privacy in El Paso.” Rocky Mountain News [Denver, CO] 26 Apr. 1992: M24.

Passaro, Vince. “The Best Unknown Writer in America.” Mirabella May 1992: 52, 54.

DePriest, Joe. “A McCarthy Fan Sees his Work Getting Better and Better.” Charlotte Observer 10 May 1992: D5.

Ligon, Betty. "Finally! World Discovers Cormac McCarthy." El Paso Herald-Post 21 May 1992, Accent section: 2.

Draper, Robert. “The Invisible Man.” Texas Monthly July 1992: 42-46.

"Cormac McCarthy among Book Award Nominees.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 8 Oct. 1992: B4.

Nelson, Robert. "The Writer’s Writer.” El Paso Times 11 Oct. 1992: F1, F3. [Account of Nelson’s attempt to interview McCarthy and several of his friends in El Paso.]

*Fein, Esther B. “National Book Awards Names 1992 Finalists.” Sun-Sentinel [Fort Lauderdale] 12 Oct. 1992: D3. [All the Pretty Horses is nominated for the award, which carries a $10,000 prize.]

"Three Debut Authors Are NBA Finalists.” Publishers Weekly 239 (12 Oct. 1992): 9.

Williams, Don. “Literary Heritage and Revival Extol City.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 23 Oct. 1992: B1

Steinberg, Sybil. “Best Books of ’92: Fiction.” Publishers Weekly 239 (2 Nov. 1992): 42. [All the Pretty Horses.]

"1992 Publishers Weekly 50 Best Books.” Publishers Weekly 239 (2 Nov. 1992): 80. [All the Pretty Horses.]

Clark, Kenneth R. “3 Honored at National Book Awards.” Chicago Tribune 19 Nov. 1992, sec. 1:22.

*"Arts Beat." Dallas Morning News 19 Nov. 1992: 30A. [National Book Award]

*Mehegan, David. “Monette, McCarthy and Oliver Win Book Awards.” Boston Globe 19 Nov. 1992: 65.

"‘Pretty Horses’ Corrals Fiction Prize.” Atlanta Constitution 19 Nov. 1992: C1.

Streitfeld, David. “Fiction Prize to ‘Pretty Horses’.” Washington Post 19 Nov. 1992: D1, 8. [National Book Award.]

"Ex-Knoxville Author Given Fiction Honor.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 20 Nov. 1992: A1.

Fein, Esther B. “A National Book Award for a Gay Autobiography.” New York Times 20 Nov. 1992: C30. [Brief mention of McCarthy’s winning fiction award for All the Pretty Horses.]

"Celebrating a Recluse: Cormac McCarthy." News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 22 Nov. 1992: F2. [Editorial.]

Baker, John F. “Book Awards Honor Four.” Publishers Weekly 239 (23 Nov. 1992): 13. [Reports on National Book Awards ceremony, which McCarthy did not attend.]

"El Pasoan Wins $10,000 National Fiction Award.” El Paso Herald-Post 29 Nov. 1992: A2. [National Book Award.]

Williams, Don. “A Walk on the Wild Side of Knoxville History.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 29 Nov. 1992: E1, E8. [Identifies location of Suttree’s The Huddle.]

"Gifts between Covers: A Selection of 1992’s Outstanding Fiction and Nonfiction Books.” Chicago Tribune 6 Dec. 1992, sec. 14: 1, 13.

Annichiarico, Mark, et al. “Best Books of 1992.” Library Journal 118 (Jan. 1993): 54-58.[The editors of Library Journal include All the Pretty Horses among the year’s best novels (57).]

Rigler, Judyth. “El Pasoan Well-Deserving of National Book Award for fiction.” El Paso Times 3 Jan. 1993. 8F.

"The Best Books of 1992.” Time 141 (4 Jan. 1993): 64.

*"Arts Beat.” Dallas Morning News 19 Jan. 1993: 25A.

*"‘Clockers,’ ‘Black Water’ in Running for Book Awards.” Detroit Free Press 20 Jan. 1993: D3. [All the Pretty Horses nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.]

"McCarthy Honored Again.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 20 Jan. 1993: A3.

Fein, Esther B. “Book Critics Honor ‘All the Pretty Horses’ in Fiction.” New York Times 1 Mar. 1993: C13. [Account of McCarthy’s winning the National Book Critics Circle Award.]

"Knoxville-Raised McCarthy Wins Major Book Award." News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 1 Mar. 1993: A11.

"National Award Goes to McCarthy: Is Pulitzer Next for El Paso Author?” El Paso Times 1 Mar. 1993: Bl. [National Book Critics Circle Award.]

Streitfeld, David. “Book Critics Give Nod to McCarthy.” Washington Post 1 Mar. 1993: B1-2. [Includes account of the deliberations of the panel awarding the National Book Critics Circle Award to All the Pretty Horses.]

"Critics Honor Best Books of 1992.” Los Angeles Times 2 Mar. 1993: E4. [National Book Critics Circle Award.]

"NBCC Winners Named: Very Close McCarthy Vote in Fiction.” Publishers Weekly 240 (8 Mar. 1993): 8.

*Compton, Robert. “McCarthy Wins Award: Literary Institute Honors Reclusive Novelist, Others.” Dallas Morning News 21 Mar. 1993: 45A.

"Texas Institute Honors McCarthy.” El Paso Herald-Post 22 Mar. 1993: B1. [All the Pretty Horses wins Jesse H. Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.]

Starr, William W. “Collective Madness.” The State [Columbia, SC] 28 Mar. 1993: F1, 4. [Starr interviews rare book dealers on sudden increase in prices asked for “hypermodern” first editions; McCarthy’s first editions are cited by two dealers as prime examples.]

Bautz, Mark. “Madison Bell Stumbles in 9th Round with Joe Louis.” Washington Times 30 May 1993: B8. [Writer Mark Bautz’s review concludes, “compared with other novels that explore similar terrain with far greater depth, intensity and honesty— Robert Stone’s A Hall of Mirrors, Denis Johnson’s Angels and Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree come to mind— Save Me, Joe Louis seems a half-done sketch waiting to be filled in."]

*Lannon, Linnea. “Pulitzer Makes Writer’s Fantasies Real.” Detroit Free Press 24 June 1993: C1. [All the Pretty Horses was passed over by Pulitzer nominators Charles Johnson, Anne Tyler, and Richard Eder.]

Neely, Jack. “A House on Noelton.” Metro Pulse [Knoxville, TN] 30 July-13 Aug. 1993. [Identifies McCarthy’s childhood homes in Knoxville.]

"What Makes A Good Book? Librarians Pick Their Favorite Reads in 1993.” Wilson Library Bulletin 68 (Dec. 1993): 26-31. [Harold Billings of the Univ. of Texas at Austin Libraries nominates Blood Meridian.]

*Sumner, Jane. “Jane Sumner’s Top Ten.” Dallas Morning News 22 Dec. 1993: 29A.

“Members Elected March 9, 1994.”  Records of the Academy [American Academy of Arts and Sciences] 1993-1994: 74-76.

Feldman, Gayle. “Making Book on Spring: PW editors place their bets on 60 finish-line favorites." Publishers Weekly 241 (17 January 1994): 41-47. [Notes that All the Pretty Horses was on the Publishers Weekly hardcover best-seller list for 25 weeks and on the trade paper list for 20 weeks; reports that Knopf will produce a 150,000 copy first printing of The Crossing (42).]

Norman, Michael. “A Book in Search of a Buzz: The Marketing of a First Novel.” New York Times Book Review. 30 Jan. 1994: 3, 22-23, 25. [Doubleday editor Nan Talese compared an unknown writer to McCarthy to boost sales of his novel. “As a marketing conceit, it was both clever and ironic: it traded on the reputation of a man who takes little part in publishing except to write his highly acclaimed books and it implied, without any evidence whatsoever, that a buzz had already begun” (25).]

Ligon, Betty. “Writer Finds McCarthy Beat Tough.” El Paso Herald-Post 17 Feb. 1994, Accent section: 5. [Report of Mick Brown’s visit to El Paso and attempts to meet McCarthy.]

Biskind, Peter. “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” Premier 7 (March 1994): 56-63. [Director Mike Nichols “is passionate about Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, for which he has a shootable script” (62).]

*"Texas Writers: Literature Leeks to Define a Sense of Place.” Dallas Morning News 13 Mar. 1994: 2J.

Grinnell, James. "A Virgin No More: Cormac McCarthy: The First Conference.” Bloomsbury Review Mar./Apr. 1994: 16. [Comments on the 1993 McCarthy Conference at Bellarmine College and suggests sources for All the Pretty Horses in Jim Harrison’s “Revenge” and Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove.]

“Diary.”  Sunday Times [London]  3 Apr. 1994, Books sec.: 8.

Brown, Mick. “On the Trail of the Lonesome Bard.” Telegraph Magazine. 16 April 1994: 22-27. [Recounts Brown’s unsuccessful attempts to interview McCarthy; includes comments by NY Times interviewer Richard Woodward, Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon, ex-wife Anne DeLisle, Richard Pearce, director of The Gardener’s Son, friends and acquaintances in El Paso.]

Brown, Fred. “Time and the River.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 17 Apr. 1994: E1. [A historical account of Knoxville’s riverfront, which comments that if Suttree “isn’t the best history, it might be the only one that relates what waterfront life resembled in physical appearance in the 1950s."]

Jaynes, Gregory. “The Knock at the Door: Fame Comes Calling on Cormac McCarthy, But He’s Hiding out in Order to Write his Violent, Exquisite Novels.” Time 143 (6 June 1994): 62-64. [A popular profile on the occasion of the publication of The Crossing. Jaynes appears to have spoken to McCarthy’s editor, Gary Fisketjon, and to some friends in El Paso.]

Williams, Don. “Cormac McCarthy Sings on, Off-Stage.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 10 June 1994: B1. [A response to the Gregory Jaynes article published in Time on the occasion of the release of The Crossing. Williams notes that McCarthy was “sighted” in the Knoxville area in the preceding week.]

Donahue, Deirdre. “The Hard Sell Isn’t All That Sells Best.” USA Today 16 June 1994: D4.

*Hale, Leon. "Word for Word, It’s a Tough Test." Houston Chronicle 21 July 1994: A21.

"Harold Bloom Chats about American Authors.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 7 Sept. 1994: A25. [In a sidebar to an article about Bloom’s forthcoming The Western Canon, Bloom’s interview remarks about McCarthy are included: “Oh, a remarkable writer. Blood Meridian is, I think, the scariest book short of As I Lay Dying, which of course it is indebted to. . . ."]

Wilma Dykeman. “Hall-of-Famers Show Goals of University." News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 25 Sept. 1994: F3.

"200 Who’ve Made a Difference.” Tennessee Alumnus [U of Tenn.] 74.4 (Fall 1994): 20-31.

Young, Dianne. “Bibliomania.” Southern Living 29 (Dec. 1994), 105, 108. [Book dealer Allen Ahearn tells the interviewer, “You have authors who get very hot . . . like Cormac McCarthy. When All the Pretty Horses came out, we had two or three calls a week for months on end from people saying, ‘I don’t collect books, but I want to collect Cormac McCarthy first editions.’ That has never happened with any other author. So the price of his books skyrocketed. We sold a copy of . . . The Orchard Keeper . . . for $1,500."]

Hansen, Ron, et. al. “Critics’ Choices for Christmas.” Commonweal 121 (2 Dec. 1994): 15-30. [Writer Ron Hansen selects The Crossing, “a work of genius", among other recent novels (28-30).]

Bennett, Catherine. “Write ’em, Cowboy.” Guardian 15 Dec. 1994, sec. 2:5. [A feminist assessment of McCarthy’s appeal to male readers.]

"Kudos for Famous Alumni.” Torchbearer [U of Tennessee] 34.1 (Winter 1995): 4.

McDonell, Terry. “The Wolf Hunter.” Sports Afield Jan. 1995: 7. [On his “Editor’s Page,” McDonell comments,"McCarthy writes about wildness and the natural world with more power and grace than any American writer since Ernest Hemingway."]

*"Charles McCarthy, 87, Former TVA Counsel.” Washington Times 17 Feb. 1995: C11.

"Mr. McCarthy, Father of Local Author, Dies.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 16 Feb. 1995: C6.

Tabor, Mary B. W.  “A Designer Helps Get Books off Retail Shelves.”  New York Times 24 Apr. 1995: D9.

Cawelti, John G. “The West has Changed, and the Western Can Never be the Same: Westward How?” Lexington Herald-Leader 14 May 1995: E6. [Reviewing Redeye: A Western byClyde Egerton, Cawelti comments on McCarthy.]

"Burning Questions.” BookPage Sept. 1995: 2. [In response to a query, editors report: “According to . . .publicist, Nicholas Latimer at Knopf, the third part of the trilogy was conceptually developed before the second was completed. No manuscript has been submitted to the publisher yet . . . ."]

Williams, Don. “Cormac McCarthy Rides the Great Stylistic Divide . . . Invisibly.” New Millenium Writings 1.2 (1996): 10-22.

Hughes, Ina. “Sand, Sea and Sun Aren’t Required for These Beach Books.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville] 20 July 1996: A2. [ Knoxville book-seller identifies “anything by Cormac McCarthy” among best-selling books in the area, and “not just because of the hometown connection."]

"He Jotted Like Some Loquacious Wordsmith.” El Paso Herald-Post 13 Nov. 1996: D5. [Prints winning entries of the 1996 Bad Cormac McCarthy Writing contest.]

Berwick, Sandy. “Cormac McCarthy.” Reflections on Sequoyah Hills. N.p.: Kingston Pike-Sequoyah Hills Association Historical Committee, 1997. 118.

“Donors to the Academy’s Annual Fund: Year Ended March 31, 1997.” Records of the Academy [American Academy of Arts and Sciences] 1996-1997: 30-36.  [McCarthy 30.]

Brown, Fred. “UT Writer-in-Residence Wins Award for Southern fiction.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 3 Apr. 1997: B1, B3. [McCarthy mentioned as previous winner of Chubb Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.]

"El Paso Authors to Get Awards.” El Paso Hearld-Post 5 Apr. 1997: B1. [McCarthy wins $1,500 Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters.]

*Compton, Robert. “Texas Writer Honored for Life’s Work: McCarthy, 11 Others Win Institute of Letters Awards.” Dallas Morning News 6 Apr. 1997: A37.

*“Texas Institute of Letters Honors McCarthy, Cambor.”  Houston Chronicle 6 Apr. 1997, Zest sec.: 22.

"El Paso Writers Awarded." El Paso Times 18 May 1997: F1. [Reports McCarthy’s winning the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement from the Texas Institute of  Letters.]

Williams, Don. “The Sevierville Area Has Changed a Bit over the Years.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 12 Dec. 1997: A21. [Includes brief comments on the goat man in Suttree and in life.]

Skelton, Bart. “Down on the Border: A Western Lawman’s Journal.” Guns & Ammo 42.1 (Jan. 1998): 81. [Praises The Crossing for its depiction of the bootheel of New Mexico.]

Renteria, Ramon. “Waiting for Cormac.” El Paso Times 17 May 1998: 1F, 3F. [Renteria interviews several critics and writers on the occasion of the publication of Cities of the Plain.]

Ligon, Betty. “Looks Like Cormac Is Settling Down.” El Paso Inc. 24 May 1998: 2b. [Reports McCarthy’s marriage to Jennifer Winkley.]

Weber, Bruce. “Dreams on the Streets of El Paso.” New York Times 27 May 1998: E1, 4. [An account of the cultural life of El Paso. “The reclusiveness of Cormac McCarthy, the reigning local literary celebrity, is a bit of an exasperation to many of his colleagues. ‘Cormac? He hangs out with golfers, not writers,’ is a frequently heard sentiment” (E4).]

Applebome, Peter. “Beating a Dead Mule, Partly in Fun.” New York Times 13 June 1998: B7,9. [Comments on Jerry Leath Mills’ “Equine Gothic” listed above.]

“Summer Reading.”  Sunday Times [London] 21 June 1998, Books sec.: 1-3.  [Ralph Fiennes, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, and Edna O’Brien on McCarthy.]

Hall, Michael. “Desperately Seeking Cormac.” Texas Monthly July 1998: 76+.

*Hale, Leon.  “Some Good Reads in Anyone’s Book.”  Houston Chronicle 12 July 1998, State sec.:1.

McLeese, Don. “Texas Prose a Plain Allure for Outlander.” Austin American-Statesman 19 July 1998: B1. [McLeese praises McCarthy and Cities of the Plain.]

*“What Are People Reading?”  Denver Post 2 Aug. 1998: F4.

*Marcus, Stanley. “The Two Big ‘Mc’s’ of Western Literature.” Dallas Morning News 25 Aug. 1998: A11.

Bernard Holland. “To a Southerner, a Belle and a Butterfly Are Different.” New York Times 24 Sept. 1998: E2. [In this review of the opera, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Holland uses McCarthy’s cowboys as an example of how in art “Profundity profits from a little distance."]

*“The Books Men Admire (That Leave Women Cold).”  Observer [London] 27 Sept. 1998: 2. [All the Pretty Horses.]

"Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain.” World & I Oct. 1998: 247. [Introduction to an excerpt from the novel.]

Seltzer, Robert. “Cormac Copycats Pen Best Parodies.” El Paso Times 17 Oct. 1998: D1. [Reports the Not Cormac Writing Contest.]

"Cormac’s Cinematic Trash.” New York Times Magazine 8 Nov. 1998: 23. [Brief account of a documentary film, “Cormac’s Trash” by Rafe Greenlee and Mylène Moreno, to be released in spring 1999.]

Holland, Dick. “Another View of the Best Texas Books.” Texas Books in Review 18.3/4 (Fall/Wtr. 1998): 14-17. [Reviewing A.C. Greene’s The 50+ Best Books on Texas, Holland decries the omission of Cormac McCarthy, “who has brought serious literary attention to his chosen fictional land of far West Texas and Mexico and who evokes that hard landscape in the language of Faulkner, Joyce, and the Old Testament” (16).]

Lauber, Lynn. “Confession of (an) Abridger.” New York Times Book Review 13 Dec. 1998: 39. ["Many books gleam with abridgment, revealing an alternate, streamlined beauty of their own. . . . Condensed versions of Cormac McCarthy’s trilogy, read by Brad Pitt, seem to have a new slender grace."]

*“More Critics’ Picks of the Year’s Best Reads.”  Seattle Times 27 Dec. 1998: G9. [Cities of the Plain.]

Neely, Jack. Knoxville’s Secret History. Knoxville, Scruffy City, 1999. [Reprints Neely’s history columns from Knoxville papers. Scattered references to McCarthy: 4, 6, 49, 59, 135-37, 98, 159.]

*Johnson, Phil. "It’s Only Words ‘n’ All but I Like It.” The Independent [London] 6 Jan. 1999: 10. [About a record album inspired by Suttree, made by Bavarian social workers, Roland Kopp and Michael Stroll (Buddy and the Huddle).]

*Sumner, Jane. “‘Horses’ Saddles up in SA.” Dallas Morning News 5 Mar. 1999: 5C.

*Weeks, Jerome. “Series’ McCarthy Roundup: Admirable Arts & Letters Live Panel Praises Novel Insightfully.” Dallas Morning News 17 Apr. 1999: 41A.

*Sumner, Jane. “Thornton Gallops along on ‘Pretty Horses’ Shoot.” Dallas Morning News 23 Apr. 1999: 5C.

Williams, Don. “One Author Took a Final Refuge in His Friend’s Success.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 21 May 1999: A19.

Reid, Jan. “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next Cormac McCarthy.” Texas Monthly 27 (May 1999): 130-31. [Compares McCarthy and James Carlos Blake.]

*Weeks, Jerome. “Definitions of ‘Regionalism’ Go Slip-Sliding Away.” Dallas Morning News 30 May 1999: 8J.

*Racine, Marty.  “Phantom on the Border: El Paso Author Cormac McCarthy, Reckoned by Many To Be a Giant of American Letters, Refuses To Be a Giant of American Letters, Refuses Journalistic Interviews, so This Reporter Went Looking for Him within the Borders of His Pages.”  Houston Chronicle 27 June 1999, Texas Magazine sec.: 8.

*“What Are People Reading?”  Denver Post 25 July 1999: G4.

*——. “Texas Literature is Still Looking Back at State’s Lone Star Roots.” Dallas Morning News 29 July 1999: 38A.

*Hale, Leon.  “Creations of a Wordsmith.”  Houston Chronicle 15 Aug. 1999, State sec.: 1.

*Hale, Leon.  “Could Reason Be Too Much Scrog?”  Houston Chronicle 29 Aug. 1999, State sec.: 1.

Cohen, Jason. “Henry Thomas.” Texas Monthly 27 (Sept. 1999): 134-5. [Includes very brief comments about meeting McCarthy during filming of All the Pretty Horses.]

"Loot for American Lit?". Austin American-Statesman 25 Nov. 1999: B18. [Cities of the Plain nominated for Internation Impac Dublin Literary Award.]

*Chollet, Laurence.  “Best of the ’90s: Books.”  Record [Bergen County, NJ] 30 Dec. 1999: Y3.

Crowther, Hal. “The Tennessee Stud.” Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2000. 33-37. [Describes Crowther’s briefly meeting McCarthy in Cashiers, North Carolina.]

Smith, Evan. “Pretty, Good: A Classic Texas Novel Lights up the Big Screen.” Texas Monthly Jan. 2000: 21. [Pre-release opinions of the rough-cut film, “All the Pretty Horses."]

*Harris, Joanne.  “What Book?”  Daily Mail [London] 25 Feb. 2000: 57.

Norris, Robert. “Piece of Art in Danger Downtown: Mosaic of Famous Author, His Friend in Way of Road.” Daily Times [Maryville, TN] 16 July 2000: 1A, 6A. [Account of McCarthy’s making sidewalk mosaics in Maryville with artist friend Bill Kidwell in the early 1970s.]

"City Should Explore Ways to Preserve Downtown Mosaic.” Daily Times [Maryville, TN] 19 July 2000:7A.

Norris, Robert. “Mosaic May Move Today.” Daily Times [Maryville, TN] 26 July 2000: 2A.

Norris, Robert. “Mosaic Move a 7-Ton Success.” Daily Times [Maryville, TN] 27 July 2000: 6A.

Gerston, Jill. “Must-Sees: Everybody Has an A-List.” New York Times 10 Sept. 2000: 41, 58. [Director Jon Avnet expresses interest in seeing the film “All the Pretty Horses” because “I optioned Cormac McCarthy’s first novel a long time ago” (58).]

Martinez, Victor R. “All Apologies: ‘All the Pretty Horses’ Has a Bumpy Ride from Ink to the Big Screen.” El Paso Times 23 Dec. 2000: D1, D4.

*Anderson, Roger.  “Onscreen and Off, Authors Play Reclusive Roles.”  Record [Bergen County, NJ]  29 Dec. 2000, Lifestyle sec.: 3.

Kitses, Jim. "Bloodred Horizons.” Sight and Sound 11 (Mar. 2001): 12-15. [About the making of the film of All the Pretty Horses.]

*“People: Ventura Pick Makes It on Librarians’ List.”  Star-Tribune [Minneapolis] 25 Mar. 2001: 8B.

Myers, B. R.   “A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness of American Literary Prose.”  Atlantic Monthly July/Aug. 2001: 104+.  Rev. as A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose.  Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2002.  [McCarthy 44-57.]

Polk, Wendy White. “Cormac’s Casita: $149,900 for a 1-bedroom.” El Paso Inc. 20-26 Jan. 2002: 14a-15a. [McCarthy’s Coffin Avenue home for sale; includes photos.]

*Nicoll, Ruaridh.  “My Favorite Book.”  Herald [Glasgow] 15 June 2002:14.  [Selects Blood Meridian]

Woodward, Richard.  “Journeys: Where Desolation Is Just a Mirage.”  New York Times 29 Nov. 2002: F1-F2.  [Quotes McCarthy on Candelaria, which strikes the visiter “as if, in Mr. McCarthy’s words, ‘you’d come to the end of the earth’” (F2).]

*“Bordering on Completion.”  Book  July 2003: 13.

*Watkins, Paul.  “If You Ask Me . . .: We Ask Writers to Nominate the Most Underrated and Overrated Book.”  Observer [London] 23 May 2004, Review sec.: 16.

“Paramount.”  Film Journal International  Jan. 2005: 57.

Madoff, Steven Henry.  “Party of 36 (Plus 1 Serpent).”  New York Times 6 Feb. 2005, Arts and Leisure sec.: 36.

Cowgill, Len.  “Galley Talk.” Publishers Weekly 6 June 2005: 13.

Maryles, Daisy.  “Hardcover Bestsellers/ Fiction.”  Publishers Weekly 1 Aug. 2005: 13.

“Amazon Worldwide Bestselling Novels: Smothered in HP.”  Economist 3 Sept. 2005: 75.

*“Books of the Year.”  Sunday Telegraph [London] 27 Nov. 2005, sec.7: 36.  [Tom Stoppard selects No Country for Old Men.]

 David Gray.  “What I’m Giving.”  Times [London] 3 Dec. 2005, Books sec.: 7.

Koski, John.  “Bookworm.”  Mail on Sunday [London] 22 Jan. 2006: 71. [Nicholas Evans selects All the Pretty Horses as his favorite book.]

*“Coens Will Film in Northern N.M.”  Albuquerque Journal 14 Apr. 2006, News sec.: 5.

Scott, A. O.  “In Search of the Best.”  New York Times Book Review 21 May 2006: 16-19.

Green, Tim.  “Gimme 5: Books and Bruises.”  Atlanta Journal-Constitution 26 May 2006: D2.

Kung, Michelle.  “Hollywood Reader: Strange Journey.”  Publishers Weekly 29 May 2006: 14.

“Novel Suggestions.”  Christian Century 13 June 2006: 7.

“Calendar.”  Publishers Weekly 10 July 2006: 12.

*Blais, Jacqueline.  “Big Names Abound, from King to Springsteen.”  USA Today 7 Sept. 2006, final ed.: 5D.

*“Book Brief.”  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 15 Oct. 2006: F9.

Leddy, Chuck.  “Read Me, but Leave Me Alone.”  Writer (Nov. 2006): 8-9.

*“A.M. Stir.”  Florida Times Union 5 Nov. 2006: E2.

“PW’s Best Books of the Year.”  Publishers Weekly 6 Nov. 2006: 22-30.

“Book Critics Circle Names Nominees.”  New York Times 22 Jan. 2007: E2.

*Fogarty, Robert S.  “Editorial.”  Antioch Review 1 Mar. 2007: 213+.

*Hale, Leon.  “From the Pages of a Master Writer.”  Houston Chronicle 18 Mar. 2007, Star ed.: 1.

Van Gelder, Lawrence.  “A New Book Club Pick by Oprah.”  New York Times 29 Mar. 2007: E2.

*Blais, Jacqueline, Bob Minzesheimer, and Carol Memmott.  “Book Buzz: What’s New on the List and in Publishing.”  USA Today 29 Mar. 2007, final ed.: 4D. 

*Reichgott, Megan. “Even the Reclusive ‘Road’ Author Can’t Resist Oprah.”  Seattle Times 29 Mar. 2007:  C8.

*Italie, Hillel.  “Oprah Gets Cormac McCarthy.”  Buffalo News [New York] 29 Mar. 2007: C2.

Keller, Julia.  “Oprah’s Selection a Real Shocker.”  Chicago Tribune 29 Mar. 2007, final ed.: 1-2.

*“Oprah’s Book Choice Is ‘The Road’ Less Traveled.”  Houston Chronicle 31 Mar. 2007: 6.

“News Briefs: Oprah Picks ‘The Road’.”  Publishers Weekly 2 Apr. 2007: 5.

*Blais, Jacqueline, Bob Minzesheimer, and Carol Memmott.  “Book Buzz: What’s New on the List and in Publishing.”  USA Today 5 Apr. 2007, final ed.: 6D.

Van Gelder, Lawrence.  “Impac Award Finalists.”  New York Times 5 Apr. 2007: E2.

Clee, Nicholas.  “Hot Type: The Deals, Steals and Snubs from the World of Books.”  Times [London] 7 Apr. 2007, Books sec.: 7.

Maryles, Daisy.  “Paperback Bestsellers/ Trade.”  Publishers Weekly 9 Apr. 2007: 17.

*“Review: Books: The Browser: Oprah Lover.” Observer [London] 15 Apr. 2007: 28.

Thompson, Bob.  “Pulitzer Prizes for the Arts: Cormac McCarthy and Ornette Coleman Bracket an Eclectic Field.”  Washington Post 17 Apr. 2007: C1, C7.

Rich, Motoko.  “3 Books from Knopf Take Prizes in Pulitzers.”  New York Times 18 Apr. 2007: E1, E9.

*Bancroft, Collette.  “Pulitzer Books.”  St. Petersburg Times [FL] 22 Apr. 2007: 10L.

*Cook-Romero, Elizabeth.  “Mixed Media.” Santa Fe New Mexican 27 Apr. 2007: PA8.

*“El Mitote.”  Santa Fe New Mexican 29 Apr. 2007: E1.

*Kuiper, Jason.  “Going Public: Oprah Lures Reclusive Writer: Cormac McCarthy Will Be a Guest on Her Television Program to Discuss ‘The Road.’”  Omaha World-Herald 6 May 2007, Iowa, Midlands, Nebraska, Sunrise eds.: 6E.

*Derby, Samara Kalk.  “Hold Requests Gauge Popularity.”  Capital Times [Madison, WI] 18 May 2007: A4.

“Quills Finalists: A New Quills.”  Publishers Weekly 4 June 2007: 19-21.  [McCarthy nominated by the editors for the Quills Award for General Fiction.]

James, Nick.  “Blood Money: The Coen Brothers.”  Sight & Sound July 2007: 20-23.

Arnold, Edwin T. “An Interview with Lee Smith.” Appalachian Journal 11 (Spring 1984): 240-54. Rpt. as Part I of “Lee Smith.” Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal Interviews, 1978-1992. Ed. J. W. Williamson and Edwin T. Arnold. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994. 341-362.

Brown, Fred. “Is Southern Literature on Cusp of Change?” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 18 May 1997: E1, E16. [Shelby Foote says of McCarthy, “He’s the only one worth reading today. . . . [W]ith the exception of McCarthy, I can’t find anybody of any stature such as I was accustomed to when I looked around in the days of Faulkner and the rest of them were going full speed ahead” (E1).]

Blasingame, James.  “Interview with Kevin Brooks.”  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 50.5 (Feb. 2007): 416-18.  [McCarthy 417.]

Byers, Thomas, Patrick O’Donnell, and Thomas Schaub.  “An Interview with Stephen Wright.”  Contemporary Literature 39.2 (Summer 1998): 157-79. [McCarthy 168-70.]

Brown, Fred. "Frazier Builds Riveting Character, History." News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 19 Apr. 1998: E2. [Charles Frazier “borrowed a page from Cormac McCarthy, one of his writing heroes. He studied old words and word usage. He dug into the roots and wrote phrases that died out with many of the mountain ways."]

Brown, Larry. “Discipline.” Big Bad Love. New York: Vintage, 1991. 115-38. [The story’s main character is interrogated about a fellow inmate’s plagiarism from novels by McCarthy.]

Buchsbaum, Tony. “The Spotlight Falls on a Captivating New Writer.” BookPage Sept. 1995: 9. [Interview with Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer, who describes McCarthy as “my sort of great, great hero".]

Cable, Carole. Cartoon. Chronicle of Higher Education 23 June, 1995: B3. [A cartoon mentioning Cormac McCarthy.]

Campbell, Christopher D. “A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton about Reading, Writing, and Being ‘Southern’.” Xavier Review 15.1 (Spring 1995): 1-11. [Edgerton names McCarthy as his favorite writer: “His book, Blood Meridian, is one of the most gripping books, and held me more closely than any book in a long time (1).]

Carr, John. “It’s Worth a Grown Man’s Time: An Interview with Shelby Foote.” Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers. Ed. John Carr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1972. 3-33. Another version, Conversations with Shelby Foote. Ed. William C. Carter. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1989. 21-55. [Differing comments about McCarthy are included in these two versions of the same interview.]

Carter, William C. “Seeking the Truth in Narrative: An Interview with Shelby Foote.” Georgia Review 41 (Spring 1987): 145-72. Rpt. Conversations with Shelby Foote. Ed. William C.Carter. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1989. 241-69.

Chappell, Fred. "The Shape of Appalachian Literature to Come: An Interview with Wil Hickson.” The Future of Southern Letters. Ed. Jefferson Humphries and John Lowe. NY: Oxford UP, 1996. 54-60.

D’Arsy, Cormac [pseudonym]. “Blood Millennium, or, The Evening Greenness of the Woodland.” Stranger [Seattle, WA] 23-29 Aug. 1993: 3. [Brief parody.]

Douglass, Thomas E. “Interview: Denise Giardina.”  Appalachian Journal 20.4 (Summer 1993): 384-93.  [McCarthy 389-90, 393.]

    . "Pinckney Benedict.” Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal Interviews, 1978-1992. Ed. J. W. Williamson and Edwin T. Arnold. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994. 444-51.

Gussow, Mel. "A Civil War Deserter Reaches No. 1: How a Family Tale Became a Word-of-Mouth Phenomenon.” New York Times 27 Aug. 1997: C9, 12. [Told that Shelby Foote found his novel indebted to McCarthy, Charles Frazier affirmed his indebtedness: “To my mind, he’s the one who sets the bar for everybody else to go for. The other thing is that he and I grew up about 40 or 50 miles apart as the crow flies, so I think some of it is that we’re working out of the same culture and the same language base” (C12).]

*Hall, Donald. “Letter After a Year.” Without: Poems. Boston: Mariner Books, 1998. 78. [Hall’s poem includes the passage, “After you died/ . . . I took up Cormac McCarthy/ for the rage and murder."]

Jones, John Griffin. “Shelby Foote.” Mississippi Writers Talking, I. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1982. 37-92. Rpt. Conversations with Shelby Foote. Ed. William C. Carter. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1989. 151-95.

Ketchin, Susan.. “Larry Brown.” The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994. 100-39. [Interview, 126-39.]

——. “Mary Ward Brown.” The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994. 303-25. [Interview, 319-25.]

——. “Sheila Bosworth.” The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994. 140-71. [Interview, 146-71.]

LaRue, Dorie. “Interview with Larry Brown: Breadloaf ’92.” Chattahoochee Review 13 (Spring 1993): 39-56. [ “My favorite living writer is Paul MacCormac (sic). He’s published his sixth novel back in May. That’s like six since 1965. And I think he’s probably the greatest living writer we’ve got. I’m a big fan of his work and have been for a long time” (41). It is likely that Brown actually named Cormac McCarthy: the details match his career and there is no “Paul MacCormac” listed in Books in Print.]

Lowe, John. “An Interview with James Wilcox: January 1997.” Mississippi Quarterly 52.4 (Fall 1999): 617-53. [Very brief comments. Wilcox says of McCarthy, “I worked for his editor, so I got to read the early works, which were amazing” (637).]

Lyman, Rick. “After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing.” New York Times 7 May 1998: E1, 8. [Interviewer reports that novelist Norman Mailer devotes much time to reading and “is planning a summer of Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy".]

McCarthy, Lee. Desire’s Door. Brownsville, OR: Storyline Press, 1991. [Poems by McCarthy’s first wife.]

McElroy, Joseph. “Neural Neighborhoods and Other Concrete Abstracts.” TriQuarterly no. 34 (Fall 1975): 201-17. [Mentions The Orchard Keeper (213).]

Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth.  “An Interview with Montserrat Fontes.”  MELUS 26.3 (Fall 2001): 145-61.  [McCarthy146.]

"My Favorite Historical Novel.” American Heritage 43 (Oct. 1992): 84-94+. [Blood Meridian is mentioned as a favorite by Annie Dillard (87) and Shelby Foote (89).]

"Questions and Answers: From atop Cold Mountain.” Carolinian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of the University of South Carolina 24 (Dec. 1997): 16. [In a very brief interview, Charles Frazier names Cormac McCarthy and Kaye Gibbons as his favorite contemporary authors.]

Reid, Jan. “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next Cormac McCarthy.” Texas Monthly 27 (May 1999): 130, 176-77. [Blake discusses his indebtedness to Blood Meridian in In the Rogue Blood.]

Weaks, Mary Louise.  “An Interview with Madison Smartt Bell.”  Southern Review 30.1 (Jan. 1994): 1-12.  [McCarthy 7.]

Williams, Don. “Experiences Are Bigger Than a Novel."News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 18 Nov. 1990: E1, E3. [Interview with and story about writer Leslie Garrett, for whom McCarthy was best man at his wedding.]

——. “Leslie Garrett Writes his Way Back.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 18 Nov. 1990: E1, E3. [Mentions Garrett’s meeting McCarthy in Ibiza.]

——. “An Interview with Leslie Garrett.” Poets & Writers 21 (Mar./Apr. 1993): 48-55. [Garrett met McCarthy on Ibiza, where Garrett over-indulged in partying, alcohol and drugs: “Cormac McCarthy warned me that it would kill me as a writer, but I didn’t listen” (54).]

——. “One Author Took a Final Refuge in his Friend’s Success.” News-Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 21 May 1999: A19. Revised as “Fading Star, Flaming Star.” New Millenium Writings 4.2 (Winter 1999-2000): 116-118. [When Garrett’s In the Country of Desire was published in the same year as All the Pretty Horses, Garrett was delighted: “There are only two great writers at work in America today. Me and Cormac. And we’re going mano a mano, hand to hand, just me and him” (118).]