A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not <em>Not</em> Noir)

A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

"[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

By Paul Neilan | June 18, 2021

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