 A work of literary criticism by McCarthy, "Tintin and the Secret of Literature", was released by Granta Books in June 2006, with French (Hachette Littératures), Spanish (El Tercer Nombre), Italian (Piemme) and American editions (Counterpoint) following in 2007-8.The book attempted a reading of Hergé's "The Adventures of Tintin" books through the prism of structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory.It divided reviewers, with some critics disliking the book's references to Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes.