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

    Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse

    November 20, 2019  By Troy Rondinone
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    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)

    November 19, 2019  By Jesse Pasternack
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    Tarot Cards Contain All the Potential of Literature's Greatest Stories

    And it's always a mystery how things will end.

    November 19, 2019  By Julie Mayhew
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    The Secret Life of Plants as Murder Weapons

    Plants make for great thrillers—it took me, a gardener, years to figure that out.

    November 18, 2019  By Karen Hugg
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    The Strange Cultural Legacy of Charlie's Angels

    The Angels have always existed in the borderlands between feminism and the patriarchy.

    November 15, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Crimen Latino: Latin Crime Fiction Is the Genre’s New Wave

    The new noir moves between borders, languages, and cultures.

    November 15, 2019  By Gabino Iglesias
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    25 Years Later, Reconsidering the Fallout from Heavenly Creatures

    A real-life story of love, coming-of-age, murder, film adaptation, and pseudonymous crime writing.

    November 15, 2019  By Nile Cappello
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    Paul Tremblay on the Absurdities of Modern Life

    The cult horror writer talks crime fiction, narcolepsy, and why the world needs a YA novel about Charles Manson

    November 14, 2019  By Max Booth III
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    Brooklyn Bad Boyz:
    The Night I Was Shot

    In 2011, Michael Gonzales was shot on his doorstep in Brooklyn. Unexpectedly, the bullet traced back to a legendary hip-hop feud.

    November 13, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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    Femmes Fatales
    and the Shattering of the
    Capitalist Dream  

    Reconsidering a 20th century crime trope, and what it says about the evolution of noir.

    November 13, 2019  By Nick Kolakowski
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