• TV & Film

    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

    September 13, 2019  By Eleni Theodoropoulos
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    The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope

    How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.

    September 13, 2019  By John Copenhaver
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    A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions

    Criminal Broads Presents: An interview with Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites

    September 12, 2019  By Tori Telfer
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    4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories

    On character being more affecting than plot

    September 11, 2019  By Thomas Kies
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    The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise

    Because what is love if not a complete mystery?  

    September 10, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Long, Proud Tradition of Jazz-Infused Crime Novels

    From the beginning, noir and jazz have gone hand-in-hand.

    September 9, 2019  By Alex Segura
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    Thrillers Revisit the
    First Gulf War

    30 Years Later, Looking at the War's Legacy in Fiction

    September 9, 2019  By Siri Mitchell
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    Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of September 2019

    The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.

    September 6, 2019  By Camille LeBlanc
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    7 Essential Contagion Novels

    Lethal microbes, zombie plagues, incompetent bureaucracies and other widespread pestilences

    September 5, 2019  By David Koepp
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    Great Noir Lives—and Dies—on Dialogue

    On the most essential, often overlooked, element of the genre

    September 4, 2019  By A.B. Jewell
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