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Topic: Noir

Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon in "The Lowdown" (Shane Brown/FX)

"The Lowdown" puts a gritty spin on noir

Melanie McFarland
"Sunburn: A Novel" by Laura Lippman (Harper Collins)

"Sunburn": Reconsidering a femme fatale

Erin Keane
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in "The Nice Guys" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Rusty & Ryan do "Chinatown"

Andrew O'Hehir
Don Winslow (Knopf/Jerry Bauer)

Winslow on the war on drugs

Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Colin Farrell in "True Detective" (HBO/Lacey Terrell)

Macdonald's California noir

Scott Timberg
Raymond Chandler, John Banville (AP/Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Raymond Chandler evening

Allen Barra
Roberto Bolaño (MacMillan Publishers)

J.P. Smith - The Nervous Breakdown

Whitewashing the LAPD's past

Andrew O'Hehir
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Scene still from "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

Steve Erickson - LA Review of Books
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