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Friday, May 31, 2019

The Inheritance – Poisoned Fruit of JFK’s Assassination, Computer Predictions

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In 1973, near the height of the ‘population bomb’ panic, a computing programme called World1 offered up some predictions for the future. It...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit

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Happy 102nd Anniversary, John F. Kennedy! JFK: “I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish where n...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: Tarantino's love letter to Hollywood and Sharon Tate

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'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood': In 1969 Los Angeles, a television actor and his stunt double embark on an odyssey to make a name...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

"The Moral Adventure of Liberalism" (A Thousand Small Sanities) by Adam Gopnik

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It’s a myth that liberalism is obsessed with individualism, a myth that liberalism doesn’t have a rich imagination of common fates and sh...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Neo-noir "Trouble is My Business" (2018), The case of Raymond Chandler

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For those who are fans of classic film noirs that came from the 1940s and the 1950s, including The Big Sleep, The Big Combo , and Murder ...
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Thursday, May 09, 2019

Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as War Veteran in American Fiction

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Raymond Chandler was evacuated to Britain, concussed and “shell-shocked,” where he began drinking heavily. In all likelihood, Chandler’s ...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel (2018)

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In 1955 Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye won the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Now Only to Sleep: A Phili...