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An Ode to Newsprint on Screen

An Ode to Newsprint on Screen

For Keith Roysdon, seeing a newspaper on screen is one of life's finest pleasures.

By Keith Roysdon | February 2, 2024

<em>Trance</em> at Ten: Revisiting Danny Boyle’s Hypnotic Noir

Trance at Ten: Revisiting Danny Boyle’s Hypnotic Noir

Harry Cooke demands justice for an obscure but still worthy crime film.

By Harry Cooke | February 1, 2024

To Write a Brutalist Novel

To Write a Brutalist Novel

"Brutalism is a hope dashed...you feel the stirring of what could have been. But also: you are experiencing a sense of the sublime."

By Zachary C. Soloman | February 1, 2024

My First Thriller: Lisa Gardner

My First Thriller: Lisa Gardner

How the suspense superstar made her literary debut...twice.

By Rick Pullen | February 1, 2024

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

"The psychic burden would’ve been too great if I’d written the story as memoir."

By Chris Cander | February 1, 2024

Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through 'Sea of Love' and the 1980s NYC Dating Scene

Electric Blue: A Personal Journey Through 'Sea of Love' and the 1980s NYC Dating Scene

Michael Gonzales on the neo-noir classic.

By Michael Gonzales | January 31, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Murder Mysteries, Magic, and Mashups

By Andrea Tang | January 31, 2024

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

By CrimeReads | January 30, 2024

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

By CrimeReads | January 29, 2024

Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

Galveston, Where Gulf Coast Stormy Noirs Abound

Crime and the City visits a Texas town with a big history.

By Paul French | January 29, 2024

Inviting Nature Onto The Page

Inviting Nature Onto The Page

The natural world should be a dynamic character, not a stagnant backdrop

By Eliot Pattison | January 29, 2024

Requiem for

Requiem for "Hightown," a Queer Noir About the Rot Beneath Paradise

The Provincetown-set noir begins its third and final season.

By Zack Budryk | January 26, 2024

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of <em>Helter Skelter</em>?

50 Years Later, What Is the Real Legacy of Helter Skelter?

Bugliosi's account of the Manson Family and Tate-LaBianca killings is the best-selling true crime book of all-time. But what do we know now?

By Nathan Smith | January 26, 2024

Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael Mann

Everything I Know About Noir I Learned From Michael Mann

Working on set with Mann was a master class in gritty storytelling

By Gordon Greisman | January 26, 2024

Decolonizing the Gothic

Decolonizing the Gothic

"Gothic literature—with its haunted homes, lonely landscapes, broken characters and longing borne of deep despair—has always been a universal story, not a western one."

By Shubnum Khan | January 25, 2024

The 20 Best, Worst, and Strangest Hercule Poirot Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

The 20 Best, Worst, and Strangest Hercule Poirot Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, John Malkovich and more!

By Olivia Rutigliano | January 24, 2024

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