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The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars | Gabriel Winslow-Yost

Summary by The New York Review of Books
In 1982 the great French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette stopped publishing fiction. In almost a dozen novels over the previous decade, he had turned violent thrillers into “a sleek vehicle for social critique,” as Gary Indiana put it, combining overt leftist politics with stripped-down stories about hired killers and cynical detectives. But after The Prone […]

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The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars | Gabriel Winslow-Yost

In 1982 the great French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette stopped publishing fiction. In almost a dozen novels over the previous decade, he had turned violent thrillers into “a sleek vehicle for social critique,” as Gary Indiana put it, combining overt leftist politics with stripped-down stories about hired killers and cynical detectives. But after The Prone […]

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