Cormac McCarthy Rides Off into the Sunset?

In The Passenger and Stella Maris, the storied author has crafted a cerebral, challenging, and surprising literary farewell (if it is indeed a farewell).

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Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of The Road in New York in 2009.

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The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 400 pages, $30)

Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 208 pages, $26)

Guy Denton

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Guy Denton

Guy Denton is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism.

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