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A volume of short fiction and memoir that reminded the critic Cyril Connolly “of Congreve and Constant, of Elizabeth Bowen and Compton-Burnett or the Cambridge period of Virginia Woolf.”
A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Miller to Gandhi and the Vassar Girl.
A collection of McCarthy’s dramatic criticism from Partisan Review and beyond.
A collection of essays praised by Anthony Burgess for its “acumen, intelligence, clarity, wit and lack of bitchiness.”
A collection of McCarthy’s controversial writings about the Vietnam War.
McCarthy remembers her friendships with contemporaries including Philip Rahv, Hannah Arendt, Nicola Chiaromonte.
Hailed as “the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America’s role in Vietnam” by the New York Times.
The fruit of McCarthy’s second trip to Vietnam at the behest of Robert Silvers, co-editor of the New York Review of Books.
McCarthy’s essays on the Senate Watergate Hearings written by McCarthy for the London Observer and the New York Review of Books.
McCarthy reflects on why writers of contemporary fiction set aside ideas, concepts, and public issues, in contrast with their 19th century counterparts.
Recent Collections
This selection of essays, which spans McCarthy’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1970s, includes her writings on topics such as fashion magazines, Eugene O’Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire, Look Back in Anger, Pale Fire, J.D. Salinger, Madame Bovary, Italo Calvino, and Watergate.
McCarthy’s complete fiction, including seven novels and eight short stories, edited by Thomas Mallon.
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A collection of McCarthy’s three works of autobiography: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, How I Grew, and Intellectual Memoirs.
A collection of three volumes, The Writing in the Wall, Occasional Prose, and Ideas and the Novel, that encompasses literary criticism, politics, friendship, and more.
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In Anthologies
“America the Beautiful” is included in this anthology of three centuries of American essays edited by Phillip Lopate.
“An Academy of Risk,” a Partisan Review essay from 1959, is included in this anthology edited by critic Jed Pearl.
The essay “General Macbeth” is reprinted in a collection edited by James Shapiro, with a foreword by President Bill Clinton.