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Movie review: 'Marlowe' a tepid take on classic noir

“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as his pseudonymous other self Benjamin Black. It is a detective story set in 1939 Los Angeles, featuring Raymond Chandler’s immortal modern-day knight…

Boston Herald

Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’

His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated

The Guardian - US

40 best books to read before you die, from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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‘A job for an angry loner’: Frankie Boyle and Denise Mina on writing crime fiction

Veteran author Denise Mina and newbie Frankie Boyle discuss what makes a great crime novel, celebrity authors and their affection for comics

The Guardian - UK

Noir and nostalgia inform Chris Womersley's tale of forgery, grief, and the seamy side of urban life

Before prospective readers can get to the opening chapter of Chris Womersley’s new novel The Diplomat, they will find themselves assailed with several pages listing past awards received by the author and supplying a range of accolades cut and pasted from reviews of his earlier works.

The Conversation

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

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Philip Marlowe returns in Joe Ide’s ‘The Goodbye Coast’

"The Goodbye Coast" by Joe Ide; Mulholland Books (320 pages, $28)

Tribune News Service

Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps

In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler

The Guardian - US

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