The film of The Big Sleep is famously confusing. Chandler did this to send the reader on the wrong quest.
Month: March 2021
Working on power
Robert Caro has spent 50 years working on biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. His short memoir is illuminating.
Reprising The 39 Steps
Every remake of The 39 Steps is a conversation with Hitchcock. The 1978 version, starring Robert Powell, isn’t an exception.