CultureWatch: Talking About Detective Fiction and The Museum of Innocence

CultureWatch:  P.D. James, in Talking About Detective Fiction, writes “if it is true, as the evidence suggests, that the detective story flourishes best in the most difficult of times, we may well be at the beginning of a new Golden Age.”  The Museum of  Innocence Orhan Pamuk is from the outset a book arranged by artifice.  The reviewer notes that “It is the first book I’ve read where the author inserts himself so directly.”