Dan Brown Meets Roland Barthes in ‘The Seventh Function of Language’
Laurent Binet's over-the-top amalgam of the airport conspiracy thriller and the French intelligentsia poses a simple question: can high theory be thrilling?
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Which Is Better, Gorgeous Writing or a Gorgeous Blonde?
In The Black-Eyed Blond, Benjamin Black provides such a satisfying incarnation of Raymond Chandler's sensibility, it's almost possible to pretend Chandler is back among the living.