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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The only thing that consoles us for our miseries isdiversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries.—Pascal. On Turner Classic Movies Philip Marlowe is grimacing at the slinky beauty of the woman who will become the wife of the actor playing him. The man playing me . . .
Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | yesterday
... when called for, the fists to get the clues. It's as if Miss Marple went into business and hired Philip Marlowe to do the legwork. Of course, Wolfe is loathe to put his mind to work, preferring to focus on his orchids and his dinner. More often than not, it's only a result of Archie's needling that they take on any work at all -- if only because they have bills to pay. And since Wolfe...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Director Noah Buschel's melancholic neo-modern yarn about a hard-drinking private eye (Revolutionary Road's? Michael Shannon) tracking a man reported missing is overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition to tell a story of disorientation and loss in a post-9/11 world where the Twin...
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... partner of detective John Finch. Finch, a cynical, sad man reminiscent of Raymond Chandler´s Philip Marlowe (but imagine a Marlowe aged beyond his years, too exhausted to be a smart-alec), has himself his share of skeletons in the closet, and, in the space of a few days, must fend off attackers of all kinds and solve this nagging mystery. He also must try to survive -...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... that “e.e.” business was the bright idea of his publisher), Bob Cousy, P.G. Wodehouse, Philip Marlowe , Gus Grissom … a list is pointless except to suggest the breadth of the concept. For contrast, here are some more or less parallel non-cool types: James Dean, Chet Baker , Andy Warhol , Allen Ginsberg , Kobe Bryant , Norman Mailer , Howard Roark , Frank Borman...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... the tempo and emotes a bit more, and I like it for that. Tom Waits – 9th and Hennepin Like Philip Marlowe standing on the corner of a George Grosz painting . Just a little off-kilter, and thoroughly bleak. Elliott Smith – King's Crossing A miserable, cynical offering clad in a sugary, harmonic coating. "It don't matter because I have no sex life/All I want to do now...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In The kindness of witches in the new Prospect Andrew Brown has a solid take on Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (see also the complete review reviews of the first two volumes, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire ). He finds Mikael Blomkvist to be: "Philip Marlowe without the failures or the inner life", while: Salander, on the other hand, is...
A Canto A Day (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... solution. Also the role of the detective changes: Poirot has an immunity from threat, while Philip Marlowe "gets beaten up, badly hurt, constantly risks his life". Finally, a third type is of the suspect as detective: the central character is wrongly suspected of the crime and must solve it to save himself. It gets interesting when novels break these structures. Todorov...
