LITERARY FICTION: The first novel from Cormac McCarthy since his desolate masterpiece The Road won the Pulitzer Prize 15 years ago is both a Big Event and an anticlimax.
FICTION: A bold, mind-bending novel in which a mystery man lodges with an idiosyncratic family. "The Singularities" by John Banville; Alfred A. Knopf (320 pages, $30) ——— John Banville s novels