Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better.

The principal doomed dreamers in these novels are siblings whose formal education exceeds that of all previous McCarthy characters combined: Bobby Western and his younger sister, Alicia. Culture & Critics The Passenger and Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy's new novels, are his first in many years in which no horses are harmed and no humans scalped, shot, eaten, or brained with farm equipment. Bobby regularly shares in his stolen food and drink, and their dialogue - mostly Sheddan's side of it - provides the sharpest statement of Bobby's bind. The late critic Harold Bloom, who spoke for superfans of the writer everywhere, wrote that "no other living American novelist … has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian", McCarthy's relentlessly bloody 1985 Western. [Extracted from the article]