Monsters Old and New : Edward Wilson’s »Farewell Dinner For a Spy«, etc. Edward Wilson is known – though perhaps not as known as he should be – for a handful of fast moving and historically-based espionage novels. What differentiates his fiction from his fellow genre travellers – e.g., John LeCarré, Charles McCarry, Ben Pastor, Robert Littell, Alan Furst – is his humane, but unapologetic, leftist perspective. Nothing all that radical, yet insistent, particularly when it comes to the relationship between an increasingly subservient Britain and an ever more powerful U.S.. In
Read More Woody Haut: What Is Noir? Is more than darkness. IsCorruption of the heart. Isbehind closed doors, board-room or street. Is fuckedWhether you do, don’t sing, Moan, sniff or shoot. Is aticket to all we have, neverenough. Is greed, lust, a fatalkiss, the banker, cop, criminal, orany other poor sucker whoscreams for mercy. Is adream of autonomy, femmefatality causality, breathing,„Hey, baby, let’s take it all.”Is a corpse, a handful of dustand ultimately who cares, ifthe only punishment is death. Excerpted – with thanks to the author – from On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems (Close
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