Setting the Modern Noir Scene in “Here in the Dark” – Chicago Review of Books

Setting the Modern Noir Scene in “Here in the Dark” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her debut novel, Here in the Dark, prize-winning culture reporter and theater critic for the New York Times Alexis Soloski crafts a psychological thriller around Vivian Parry, a Manhattan-based theater critic notorious for her acerbic reviews and her predilection for mixing sex, booze, and pills to quell the anxiety and grief she feels … Read more

A Modern Noir in Big Tech in “Please Report Your Bug Here” – Chicago Review of Books

A Modern Noir in Big Tech in “Please Report Your Bug Here” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The threat posed by technocratic fascism has played out in real time on the timelines of social media users in recent months. Whether we’re sharing words or videos or memes or embarrassing grade school yearbook photos, we’ve ceded enormous power to too few gatekeepers. The rapid changes in technology has meant our cultural critique … Read more

The Dark Web of Noir in “My Annihilation” – Chicago Review of Books

The Dark Web of Noir in “My Annihilation” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In many ways, we are our experiences. We wake up, experience something, react to it, consider it, form thoughts on it, go to sleep, and wake up again. This continuity of thought—memory connecting point to point to point—is one of the ways we as people come to define ourselves, according to John Locke. Novels, … Read more