Cormac McCarthy has created a tradition in American literature of violence and desolation, his work dismembering American myth and replacing it with a brutal, epic and often uncomfortable reality. In The Road McCarthy maintains the hallmarks of...

In Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and Christopher Isherwood’s Mr. Norris Changes Trains, the authors invoked elsewhereness through their characters’ needs to be anywhere except home, or Britain. In all three novels,...