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Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Turns 100. Time To Admit It’s Crime Fiction.

Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Turns 100. Time To Admit It’s Crime Fiction.

Chistopher Chambers makes the case for reading Gatsby as noir

By Christopher Chambers | April 18, 2025

Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

Crimes that are both everyday and yet brutal seem to be front and center only in a small subset of the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. Is that taste, craft—or something that should make us all a little uncomfortable?

By Christopher Chambers | October 21, 2022

Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

American crime stories featuring poor people and nontraditional voices are as old as Poe’s Dupin. And now, they're finally trending.

By Christopher Chambers | October 14, 2020

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