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Feel silly but I didn't know what Darker America was. Maybe i'm in the minority but The Road, No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian seem to be massively more popular so it seems a bit odd for the title to mention what I perceive as a lesser known book.



You might be a non-native speaker, but the title is trying to say his works evoke a darker America rather than that being a work he's written.


I assumed with Darker being capitalized it was a title. Perhaps the NYTimes editors are no longer native english speakers?


That's how titles of news articles are typically capitalized. The only lowercase words are those that are grammatical connectors.


This is a culture shock for me because when I studied journalism in Australia I was taught to only capitalise the first letter and proper nouns.

Example from ABC News AU: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/missing-australian-hi...

> Brisbane woman Julia-Mary Lane found dead in Canadian wilderness in 'unfortunate hiking accident'


It’s part of the title of the article, which is in titlecase. That’s why ‘Novelist,’ ‘is,’ and ‘dead’ are capitalized.


edit: I’m wrong, disregard.

I mean, they capitalized “is” too. Sloppy work, 0/10.


“Is” is a verb, so it should always be capitalized in title case.


Huh! I’ve apparently been getting this wrong for years.


There are 14 competing standards...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case


They are referring to his little known novel “Darker America, Is dead at 89”


I believe that’s a descriptor of his works, not a title of one.


Thank you, I just spent 5 minutes trying to find the book anywhere on line and was starting to feel a bit nuts.




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