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Review of Louis Armand’s Breakfast at Midnight (London: Equus, 2012), “Victorious Corruption,” by Richard Marshall, originally published in 3:AM Magazine: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012. Armand has written a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka’s Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil. From the off it reeks with sour milk, … Continue reading →

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