Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in ... was in East Tennessee and its parallels with Child of God, it seems likely that McCarthy was familiar with the case and drew on ...

Cormac McCarthy's third novel, Child of God, follows Lester Ballard, an abandoned, hopeless man who turns to violence and serial murder as he loses his grip on his sanity. The story goes back and ...

Who is the top conservative novelist today? One name that comes to mind is Michel Houellebecq, recently included by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the syllabus for his Yale University ...