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    Remember The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?

    Olivia Rutigliano discusses this late-career Coen Brothers' installment

    October 3, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney

    60 years after the publication of Capote's masterpiece, one detail evokes the history of homophobic crimes and shameful excuses, then and now

    October 3, 2025  By Carsten Andresen
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    The 15 Best Mafia Comedies

    Leave the gun, take the remote!

    October 2, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    A Roundtable Discussion on Climate Change and Crime Fiction’s Role in Meeting the Moment

    Authors from a new anthology explore the crimes, injustices, and consequences of this existential crisis

    October 2, 2025  By Curtis Ippolito
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    Nice Guys with Lethal Weapons: The Influential Style of Shane Black, Our Last Noir Director

    Nick Kolakowski on the Settings, Shane-Black-isms, and Signature Leitmotifs of a Long Cinematic Career

    October 1, 2025  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Let's Do the Crime Warp: Keith Roysdon Makes The Case for Keeping Settings Vintage in Contemporary Productions

    "[C]rime stories produced in contemporary times but set in the past are just as enticing and have the additional benefit of hindsight."

    October 1, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Backlist: Reading Kate Elizabeth Russell's "My Dark Vanessa" with Attica Locke

    Locke and Polly Stewart revisit Russell's powerhouse debut in the wake of #metoo and renewed misogyny

    October 1, 2025  By Polly Stewart
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    Twenty Years of Capote

    Julia Sirmons looks back on Bennett Miller's classic film

    September 30, 2025  By Julia Sirmons
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    Horror Film Franchises That Refuse To Die

    Michael Wehunt on the hits that keep on coming

    September 30, 2025  By Michael Wehunt
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    On Writing Contemporary Mysteries vs. Historical Ones

    Sherry Thomas weighs two equally fun approaches to crime fiction

    September 30, 2025  By Sherry Thomas
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