• Craft

    Are There Any Subjects Too Dark for Crime Fiction?

    Crime Authors Debate the Possibilities & Limits of Noir...And Also Dinosaurs

    May 28, 2019  By Hannah Mary McKinnon
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    Raymond Chandler's Grudge Against British Mysteries, Reconsidered

    Chandler slammed English detective novels and their authors time and again. But he didn't hate the literature, just the class snobbery.

    May 24, 2019  By Curtis Evans
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    The Most Iconic Nose Injuries in the History of (Crime) Film

    Sometimes a Busted Nose Is What Makes a Movie Truly Great

    May 23, 2019  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Revisiting the Social Climber Novel and the American Dream

    Tom Ripley, Jay Gatsby, and a Quintessential American Art Form

    May 23, 2019  By Anna Pitoniak
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    Donald Goines and the Birth of Black Pulp Fiction

    The man who ushered in a new era of stories by black people, for black people, about the black urban experience.

    May 22, 2019  By Kinohi Nishikawa
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    Harper Lee and Truman Capote: Partners in Crime

    Capote wanted an "assistant researchist." Lee got a train to Kansas and helped to revolutionize crime literature.

    May 17, 2019  By Casey Cep
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    The Groundbreaking Art of
    Jim Steranko

    How a maverick artist's dark vision transformed the comics world and ushered in the graphic novel

    May 16, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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    Why Oakley Hall (Still) Matters

    Power, Corruption, and the History of the West

    May 13, 2019  By Tobias Carroll
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    Hardboiled Noir, Pulp Favorites, and Problematic Art

    Reckoning with Hateful Attitudes in Classic Crime Fiction

    May 10, 2019  By W.M. Akers
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    The Real Lives of Private Investigators

    More people than ever are becoming private investigators. But the profession remains shrouded in celluloid myths.

    May 9, 2019  By Howie Kahn
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