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...Euro-noir film turns into another sort of exercise for the audience: an exercise in boredom. We begin to see that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where he was a foreign correspondent before the war. His ostensible business is to cover the Potsdam conference. His real interest is in seeing whether...
...Mexico is also home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, once the site of the Manhattan Project, the mother of all government secrets. Broadway Books is hoping it will have a best seller this summer with Los Alamos, a compelling and literate murder mystery from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...
...Kanon described the book as light and humorous. "It's delicious. It's very much Ken. It's charming," he said...
Joseph A. Kanon '68, who edited the manuscript of A Tenured Professor, said the telling details of a Harvard professor's life are the only autobiographical elements of the book...
...never known, for example, what it's like to have lunch at the long tables in the Faculty Club," Kanon said...