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Catholic Noir

Richard T. Whittington, First Things

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Whereas the noir tradition typically gives the last word to pessimism and despair, James Lee Burke does not observe evil with nihilistic detachment. He responds to it with a confrontational fury rooted in a Catholic understanding of human nature.

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