This is the sixth annual issue of The Cormac McCarthy Journal, with a thematic focus on The Road plus articles on McCarthy’s recent play, The Sunset Limited. This issue contains essays by Diane Luce on McCarthy in the new millenium, Jay Ellis’ plenary address to last year’s Knoxville conference on The Road, Wes Morgan on “The Route and Roots of The Road,” and several other essays by such well known McCarthy critcs as Linda Woodson, Phillip Snyder, John Vanderheide and others. A must-have volume.