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Friday essay: what do publishers' revisions and content warnings say about the moral purpose of literature?

This year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding content warnings and disclaimers to books by…

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While I wait for Phantom Liberty, I'm replaying Cyberpunk 2077 as a hardboiled detective

Just call me V, Night City PI

GamesRadar

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Second Murderer by Denise Mina; Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott; Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter; Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary; The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

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Secret Invasion episode 4 review: "Has finally found its footing"

Total Film

Door Mouse review – strip club thriller that’s Raymond Chandler by way of Tank Girl

Played by Hayley Law, Mouse is a graphic artist and club performer who takes a predictable but well-drawn route through the mean streets

The Guardian - UK

The shadow of Raymond Chandler looms in Call Me Marlowe, an international tale seeking humanity in the darkness

Catherine de Saint Phalle lived alone for many years in the country in France, where she published five novels and toured with controversial author Michel Houellebecq.

The Conversation

Marlowe: The real crime isn’t the dead body in this soft-focus stab at a familiar genre

Marlowe is set in 1930s Hollywood, where deceptions are a dime a dozen and dark corners hold secrets. But the real crime's the film itself.

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Liam Neeson on his 100th film, Marlowe on Sky: ‘where have the years gone? I’ve been blessed’

The Irish actor is appearing in Sky’s new hardboiled detective film, Marlowe , based on the work of Raymond Chandler

Evening Standard

Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye

Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark

The Guardian - UK

Liam Neeson confirmed as first guest for RTE Late Late Show St Patrick's Day special

The Taken star will chat to Ryan on the show which falls on St Patrick's Day

Irish Mirror

50 Years Ago, Elliott Gould Made a Controversial Noir Thriller With a Shocking Final Twist

Funny yet melancholy, Gould's take on Philip Marlowe divided fans but produced a classic.

Inverse

First look at Liam Neeson's latest movie as Antrim native hits a major milestone in his career

The Taken actor stars in Neil Jordan's Marlowe, which will be released on Sky Cinema on St Patrick's Day

Irish Mirror

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

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The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Conversation

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.

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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

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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

Tribune News Service

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

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

The Guardian - US

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

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