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Tips for Writing Speculative Detective Fiction

Tips for Writing Speculative Detective Fiction

How can you keep a commitment to reason and procedure when rules of reality no longer apply?

By Tyler Hayes | December 4, 2019

Virginie Despentes on Aging Punks, Failing Economies, and Fetishizing the Dead

Virginie Despentes on Aging Punks, Failing Economies, and Fetishizing the Dead

A wide-ranging conversation with the author and filmmaker.

By Michael Seidlinger | December 2, 2019

The Best and Most Binge-Worthy Thrillers for Your Thanksgiving Weekend

The Best and Most Binge-Worthy Thrillers for Your Thanksgiving Weekend

So Many Thrillers to Watch, So Many Leftovers to Eat

By Camille LeBlanc | November 27, 2019

Our Boys From Jefferson Street: Reckoning with the Murder of Jimmy Hoffa and a Culture of Tarnished Men

Our Boys From Jefferson Street: Reckoning with the Murder of Jimmy Hoffa and a Culture of Tarnished Men

Mauro Altamura signed up as an extra on 'The Irishman'—he'd been struggling with the legacy of the Hoffa killing for 50 years.

By Mauro Altamura | November 27, 2019

<em>Knives Out</em> Is a Surprisingly Subversive Mystery

Knives Out Is a Surprisingly Subversive Mystery

Rian Johnson's new movie celebrates the whodunit—while also skewering its traditional power structure to condemn the 1%

By Olivia Rutigliano | November 27, 2019

interview with an Archivist: Randal Brandt on Berkeley's Legendary Detective Fiction Collection

interview with an Archivist: Randal Brandt on Berkeley's Legendary Detective Fiction Collection

Con Lehane and Randal Brandt talk detectives, the wonders of research libraries, and a real-life murder in the archives.

By Con Lehane | November 25, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Crime Fiction Series That Defined the Last Decade

By CrimeReads | November 22, 2019

The 10 Best True Crime Books of the Last Decade

By CrimeReads | November 21, 2019

How a Gang of Heavy Metal Stoners Went to 1980s L.A. and Became the Notorious MS-13

By Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez | November 21, 2019

A Tale of Two Sex Worker <br>Heist Stories

A Tale of Two Sex Worker
Heist Stories

Aya de Leon on Hustlers, social justice, and the complicated intersection of feminism and crime.

By Aya de Leon | November 21, 2019

Europe Is Obsessed With These Crime Series—You Will Be, Too

Europe Is Obsessed With These Crime Series—You Will Be, Too

A look at the best crime TV shows Europeans are watching now.

By Paul French | November 21, 2019

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #34

Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #34

Rear Window (1954)

By Otto Penzler | November 21, 2019

The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade

The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade

An unscientific, hotly-debated look at ten years of crime fiction.

By CrimeReads | November 20, 2019

The Great Third Wheels of Literature

The Great Third Wheels of Literature

Examining the thrill and the horror of the unwanted third person.

By Annaleese Jochems | November 20, 2019

Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse

By Troy Rondinone | November 20, 2019

<em>Psycho</em> Invented the Spoiler Alert as We Know It

Psycho Invented the Spoiler Alert as We Know It

A very personal history of trying to prevent spoiling cinema's first great shocking twist (and yes, there are spoilers ahead)

By Jesse Pasternack | November 19, 2019

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