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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.

• boredumb 3y ago
  I assumed with Darker being capitalized it was a title. Perhaps the NYTimes editors are no longer native english speakers?
  • FemmeAndroid 3y ago
    It’s part of the title of the article, which is in titlecase. That’s why ‘Novelist,’ ‘is,’ and ‘dead’ are capitalized.
  • NotYourLawyer 3y ago
    edit: I’m wrong, disregard. I mean, they capitalized “is” too. Sloppy work, 0/10.
    • rphv 3y ago
      “Is” is a verb, so it should always be capitalized in title case.
      • NotYourLawyer 3y ago
        Huh! I’ve apparently been getting this wrong for years.
        • throwaway81523 3y ago
          There are 14 competing standards... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
  • moultano 3y ago
    That's how titles of news articles are typically capitalized. The only lowercase words are those that are grammatical connectors.
    • AA-BA-94-2A-56 3y ago
      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-hiker-found-dead-in-canada-julia-mary-lane/102476534 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'