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American fiction

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy & Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

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January-February 2023, no. 450
Shannon Burns reviews 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris' by Cormac McCarthy

A hunter discovers a woman’s body in the woods on Christmas day, ‘hung among the bare gray poles of the winter trees’, a red sash tied around her dress to make her body visible in the snow. The strong implication is that she has taken her own life. The series of events that led to her decision is one of many mysteries in The Passenger, the first of two connected and long-awaited novels by Cormac McCarthy.

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'Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind: An ever-prolific American polymath' by Sascha Morrell 

Jewish International Film Festival
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11 November 2022
Joyce Carol Oates

Here is a list of things you won’t see the great American writer Joyce Carol Oates doing in this documentary: looting, detonating a bomb, strangling children, having sex, eating, eating human flesh, sleeping, kissing, cussing, masturbating, masturbating over a corpse, screaming, lobotomising a lover, shedding tears (though she comes close), or being murdered.

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