Sebastian Smee

When all the clocks have stopped

issue 11 November 2006

  • The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    Picador, pp. 226

A great many unspeakable things happen in the course of Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant, distressing new novel. But the worst, the most unspeakable, has already taken place. We are not told precisely what that thing was. McCarthy is content to leave it ill-defined (‘a dull rose glow in the window-glass’ at 1.17am,

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