New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. I first encountered Mary McCarthy not ...

The feud may have been simmering for many years before it boiled over on the Dick Cavett Show in 1980, where McCarthy called Hellman “a bad writer and a dishonest writer. . . . Every word she writes ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education. By A.O. Scott After two years, travel is at ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Yesterday’s denial by Mary McCarthy that she was the source for Dana Priest’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story about secret CIA ...

Mary McCarthy, 78, passed away peacefully on May 18th, 2023 in St George, UT. She was born on April 12th, 1945 in Richland Center, WI to John and Lorraine Coolidge. In 1966, she married Thomas Daniel ...

Mary McCarthy retired from the Methuen School System; 77 METHUEN Mary (Wrigley) McCarthy, 77, of Methuen, died Thursday, November 26, 2009, at her home, after spending Thanksgiving Day with her ...

Mary McCarthy OBITUARY Mary F. McCarthy; beloved wife of the late William L. McCarthy; loving mother of William L. Jr, M.D. (Laurie), Michael D., M.D. (Nora), Patrick D., Peter J. and the late Kevin J ...

MARY MCCARTHY Passed away in Oakland, CA, on April 30, 2002. She was preceded in death by her husband Edward McCarthy and her son Eddie McCarthy. She was the loving mother of Albert McCarthy of ...

Mary Patricia (Jones) McCarthy, 78, of Farmington, beloved wife of the late Denis McCarthy, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 19, 2015 at Hartford Hospital, surrounded by her family. Born on ...

Mary A. ‘Nana’ McCarthy Devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother LOWELL — Mary A. “Nana” (McCarthy) McCarthy, 97, a lifelong Lowell resident, died Thursday, May 3, 2012, ...

Mary M. McCarthy, 93, of Springfield Township, PA died Friday March 10, 2017. She had a lifetime friendship with her late husband James J. McCarthy, Sr.; of their shared eighty-one years, sixty-four ...