“Motherless Brooklyn” by Jonathan Lethem is not your typical murder mystery. Instead, “Motherless Brooklyn” is focused on the narration of an uncertified detective named Lionel Essrog as he earnestly ...

Set in the 1950s rather than the 1990s, Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn takes inspiration from Jonathan Lethem’s eponymous novel about a detective with Tourette’s syndrome. In his loose adaptation ...

Edward Norton plays detective Lionel Essrog in Motherless Brooklyn, a movie he also directed and wrote. Edward Norton's new movie Motherless Brooklynis the first he wrote, directed and stars in. A ...

Director/star Edward Norton’s decision to turn Jonathan Lethem’s postmodern neo-noir novel into a literal 1950s-set noir, with jazz music and vintage cars aplenty, is both an asset and a liability.

Forget Bogart’s Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, or Nicholson’s J.J. Gittes – sharply tailored, fast-talking, ineffably cool. Lionel Essrog (Norton) is a fledgling private eye with Tourette’s Syndrome, ...

The book: This 1999 noir novel by Jonathan Lethem centers on Tourette's-afflicted detective Lionel Essrog. The book gleefully twisted the genre's penchant for intricate mysteries with detours into Zen ...