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January 19, 2023

Cormac McCarthy’s Most Jewish Novels Have Little to Do with Jews, but Much to Do with Faith

The Passenger, Stella Maris, and scientism.

Last year, Cormac McCarthy released two novels with intertwined plots, The Passenger (named one of Mosaic’s books of the year) and Stella Maris. Their main characters are the brilliant siblings Alice and Bobby Western, whose father was a Manhattan Project physicist and who are, respectively, a troubled mathematical genius and a thrill-seeking salvage diver. Abe Greenwald writes in his review:

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