PULP CURRY

The Only Living Pickpocket In New York

and other cultural preoccupations over a cold Berlin winter

Mar 2 • Andrew Nette

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February 2026

Forget it, Stanley, it's Chinatown

In praise of Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon

Feb 13 • Andrew Nette

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Dead to shame: the ballad of the Asia hand

In the early nineties I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down, quasi-communist capital of what was then one of the more…

Feb 2 • Andrew Nette

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January 2026

My Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy dream cast

While I work on some new Substack material, please allow me to repost one of my older and most popular posts.

Jan 24 • Andrew Nette

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December 2025

In search of a Proletarian Bond

The first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, published in 1953, kickstarted the modern fascination with spies.

Dec 17, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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Hard Rain Falling

I was in a Berlin bookshop recently and noticed a brand spanking new Penguin Modern Classics edition of Don Carpenter’s 1966 novel Hard Rain Falling. I…

Dec 5, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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November 2025

Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema

I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel…

Nov 13, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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Jane Gallion and the Tao of the female smut writer

The counterculture of the late sixties and early seventies provided rich fodder for pulp writers.

Nov 8, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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October 2025

'Under the tinsel and glitter - something ugly.'

Australian pulp fiction's Spanish connection

Oct 12, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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September 2025

Everything was like that. Nothing was exactly like that.

The Baader-Meinhof gang on the big screen

Sep 20, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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James Coburn's Hard Contract

If he was still alive, James Coburn would’ve been 97 a few days ago.

Sep 4, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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July 2025

The last good British gangster film

Sexy Beast and 10 other great British gangster movies

Jul 31, 2025 • Andrew Nette

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