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Cormac McCarthy Took Us Beneath the Surface

Inside the celebrated novelist’s first and only nonfiction essay. The post Cormac McCarthy Took Us Beneath the Surface appeared first on Nautilus.

I always feel grateful that Nautilus is associated with Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe. He was 89 years old. In 2016, the great American novelist published his first and only piece of nonfiction, “The Kekule Problem,” in Nautilus.

Since set sail in 2013, we’ve tacked in line with the, where brilliant minds have convened since 1984 to illuminate the complexities and connections beneath the world’s surfaces. Santa Fe Institute cofounder Murray Gell-Man, a Nobel

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