Paris
This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.
Read MoreA two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.
Read MoreThe wily Enrique Vila-Matas remains wary but respectful of Ernest Hemingway and asserts his independence by going on his own self-consciously vaudevillian way—Juan Gabriel Vásquez is too subservient to elude the shadow of Joseph Conrad.
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