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Poe, darling of the misunderstood

These days, Poe fans know less about his writing and more about the aura and mystique of what he represents

Salon

How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood

Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old on Jan. 19, 2023, remains one of the world’s most recognizable and popular literary figures.

The Conversation

"This film is Poe's origin story"

Scott Cooper discusses his Netflix film placing Edgar Allan Poe in a detective story starring Christian Bale

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Netflix's The Pale Blue Eye uses a fictional whodunnit to explore the origins of Edgar Allan Poe

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye is an artist origin story with a difference.

The Conversation

Is Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye based on a true story?

Christian Bale stars as a world-weary detective in Netflix’s grisly whodunnit

Manchester Evening News

Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an appealingly dark period mystery, but Scott Cooper’s adaptation largely frustrates

Scott Cooper is a competent filmmaker. He’s rarely an extraordinary one.

Tribune News Service

The Pale Blue Eye review – starry gothic mystery loses its way

Despite the best efforts of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and co, this wintry crime yarn featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe descends into farce

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Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ spies a badly written mystery flop

An overacted, badly written, murder mystery dud, “The Pale Blue Eye” takes its title from a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 Boston-set story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Poe himself is also a character in the film, an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard adapted by writer-director Scott Cooper…

Boston Herald

‘The Pale Blue Eye’: Christian Bale impresses again as detective partnered with young Edgar Allan Poe

Even when the 19th century mystery takes some insanely big dramatic swings, Bale is immersed in his performance.

Chicago Sun-Times

'The Pale Blue Eye' review: Edgar Allan Poe steals Christian Bale's thunder

Harry Melling as young Poe makes you yearn for a Netflix TV series. Here's why this former Harry Potter star steals the show in 'The Pale Blue Eye.'

Inverse

The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn

Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

The Guardian - UK

The Pale Blue Eye review: Christian Bale leads a handsome if unnecessarily Easter egg-filled thriller

Amid a starry cast – which includes Gillian Anderson and Timothy Spall – it’s Harry Melling who is the real draw here

The Independent UK

Pa. Senator-elect John Fetterman is in a new Netflix crime drama starring Christian Bale

PHILADELPHIA — During the Pennsylvania race for U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated television star Mehmet Oz. Now he has his sights set on Hollywood.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

MAGA abusing outdated intimidation laws

Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

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Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They forced him to vote, then abandoned him near death. Details are murky, but we do know Poe died in…

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry’ a satisfying, clever dramedy

In the imperfect, but clever and genuinely moving comedy-drama “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” a lonely bookseller finds love and fulfillment in a way that will remind readers of some of the plots of their favorite books. Set for the most part in the fictional Cape Cod-adjacent Alice Island…

The Conversation

How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

The Guardian - US

My kids love detective stories – and, as I read with them, I can see why

I look forward to our nightly literary escapades. In a day-to-day in which so many things are a mystery, it’s comforting to immerse myself in a world in which problems have solutions

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Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

Salon

Masque of the Orange Death

With another COVID surge upon us, many Americans seem done with masks — and Trump's body count keeps growing

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong?

Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest

The Guardian - UK

Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch among donations to museum

Owned by the author while he was writing The Tell-Tale Heart, in which a ticking timepiece drives his narrator mad, the bequest also includes a fragment of Poe’s original coffin

The Guardian - UK

From science fiction to dystopian fact

Letters: We shouldn’t be surprised when sci-fi writers correctly predict the future, says Garth Groombridge, while Frances Starbuck detects the shadow of Edgar Allan Poe looming over the current crisis at No 10

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