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This volume is the first of a planned series of casebooks to be published by the Cormac McCarthy Society. It is an expanded and updated version of the fourth volume of The Cormac McCarthy Journal, originally released in 2006 to celebrate th… more

Mark Twain once wrote, “We are nothing but echoes.” Despite this pronouncement, Twain’s voice continues to reverberate in the 21st century. Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn helped define modern American literature, creating The Huck F… more

This is the first volume of a planned three part study of Robert B. Parker’s western novels. The first part begins with a brief introduction, establishing the strong thematic connection between Parker’s first western, Gunman’s Rhapsody (a r… more

The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a … more

A missing aviator’s billion-dollar fortune and a fool’s mistake bring mayhem down on a small-town ranching and resort community in this unrelenting, tautly written debut thriller. After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returne… more

Written by a contributor to Book & Magazine Collector magazine, American Greats is a collector’s guide to the novels of two of America’s greatest living novelists - Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon. Featuring a full bibliography of their … more

In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South’s most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction—Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy—expose the roots of violence in south… more

One of today’s most important novelists, Cormac McCarthy is at the peak of a long and productive career. The film adaptation of his No Country for Old Men is a major motion picture, and his fiction is widely read in book clubs. This volume … more

Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and visceral debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston by a young writer with a hard edge to his potent literary styleOn the same day that… more

Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” fiction writer of 2012 Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richar… more

A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipin… more

Following on the heels of The Nobody, his Vertigo graphic novel debut, writer/artist Jeff Lemire pens his very first ongoing series Sweet Tooth. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Sweet Tooth tells the story of Gus, a rar… more

Following on the heels of The Nobody, his Vertigo graphic novel debut, writer/artist Jeff Lemire pens his very first ongoing series Sweet Tooth. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Sweet Tooth tells the story of Gus, a rar… more

Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, is one of America’s greatest living writers—an uncompromising examiner of the depths of human depravity, the nature o… more

  After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land,... <a class="more" href="/books/detail/B004X2UF92/#editorial-review">more</a>

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. … more

Hi readers!We recently underwent an overhaul of our Quicklets to focus on commentary, analysis, and criticism from our expert writing team.In addition, our Quicklets include an overall summary, brief chapter summaries, a description of key … more

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. … more

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout.What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Po… more

“M. Glenn Taylor’s plain spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel’s inspired Working. The Marrowbone Marble Company is a novel of stirring clarity and power.”—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termit… more