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Pulp fiction

Russell Banks dips into the mainstream in The Reserve
The forbidding, remorseless Russell Banks has finally conceded to popular literature.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2008

Detective comics

Brown’s playful City of Angels
Tough guys and loose women populate the lighthearted musical City of Angels like tykes playing dress-up.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 24, 2007

The 2007 Toronto Film Festival
In the pioneering early-’80s days of the Toronto Film Festival, the audience actually rose before movie showings for a canned recording of “God Save the Queen.”
By GERALD PEARY | September 18, 2007

Old acquaintance

The Autumn Garden in Williamstown; The Widow’s Blind Date in Gloucester
Lillian Hellman turned the pot down from boil to simmer for The Autumn Garden , her 1951 attempt to be Chekhovian.
By CAROLYN CLAY | August 22, 2007

Rhode Island’s man of mystery

Projo reporter Mark Arsenault carves a budding sideline in fiction
The hard-luck obit writer has just made his literary debut, in Gravewriter , a fast-paced mystery that represents a promising new chapter in Providence Journal reporter Mark Arsenault’s budding sideline as a fiction writer.
By IAN DONNIS | December 14, 2006

Reflections on a golden filmmaker

John Huston at the Brattle
John Huston had such a long, illustrious career as a film director — just a few years short of half a century — that any series in his honor that isn’t comprehensive has to feel truncated.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 27, 2006

Med noir

The bloody Continental take on an American genre
It all starts with murder.
By DANA KLETTER | April 27, 2006

Doomed romance

Or, the spy who loved her
Graham Greene and John le Carré have long cornered the market on tales of gray, dour espionage mandarins who, with inevitably tragic results, feel their lives revitalized by a taste of romantic love.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | March 15, 2006

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