American Writers
Books
Cormac McCarthy Peers Into the Abyss
The eighty-nine-year-old novelist has long dealt with apocalyptic themes. But a pair of novels about ill-starred mathematicians takes him down a different road.
Postscript
What Joan Didion Saw
Her writing and thinking captured momentous change in American life—and in her own.
Page-Turner
The Bravery of E. L. Doctorow
The American Literary Scene
(AFTER READING SEVERAL ESSAYS, IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES, ON THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN WRITER AND THE NATURE OF THE AMERICAN MALE)